Word: straw
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...since college. "In the midst of gloom and depression I have come to the last page of my history," he wrote in one of the few diary fragments that somehow survived the incineration and is included in this book. "I wish I cared but I do not care a straw...
Shortly after 4 p.m., the final tallies from the straw poll were announced, and the area was largely deserted. A pack of reporters rushed by to catch a press conference by representatives of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale--the winner of the non-binding vote. The jubilant chants of the organized labor delegates from the convention floor could be heard, as that bloc celebrated its victory in getting one-fourth of the delegates to vote for "jobs" instead of a candidate. In the middle of the rotunda, about 20 supporters of Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) hugged and kissed...
Presidential candidate Sen. Gary Hart (D. Col.) made a campaign swing through Cambridge yesterday as he attempted to gather momentum for this weekend's Democratic State Issues Convention in Springfield where he hopes to show strength in a non-binding straw vote...
...senator drew laughter when he responded to a question on the importance of the upcoming convention at Spring field. Denying the straw poll's importance to the campaign, he ended by joking that were he to win the poll, however, "it would take on massive significance...
...Mass. Women's Political Caucus dumped Heckler for a variety of reasons. The proverbial straw, though, was probably Heckler's performance at the 1980 GOP convention. At a news conference in the Capital before the convention, Heckler, a member of the Platform Committee, told reporters that she would back an endorsement of the ERA, and would attempt to bring the issue to the floor if it lost in committee. What exactly happened at the convention is not clear, but it is clear that, for the first time since the 1940s, the GOP 1980 platform did not include an endorsement...