Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of ballots could overcome China's stubborn opposition to a man not from the Third World. Salim, opposed by the U.S. for his occasionally strident anti-American rhetoric, followed suit five days later. That left the field open for a stable of dark horses. The first straw poll, conducted behind the closed doors of the Security Council's chambers, gave the necessary minimum of nine votes to Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 48, a Harvard-educated Iranian citizen who was the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977. But there was one hitch...
...would rejoice to acclaim the era of the Golden Rule and crown it with the autocracy of service" is still under review. William Howard Taft, when facing a challenge for renomination from Teddy Roosevelt, struck back, and told the New York Times: "I have been a man of straw long enough. Even a rat in a corner will fight." To confuse matters further, Roosevelt ran as a bull moose...
...really change the process? Estrich notes that "you can't stop New Hampshire from having a straw vote early on. You can't stop candidates from going there. And you can't stop CBS from covering...
Despite the number of students at the open meeting who questioned the minority provision, the assembly in a straw vote later last night rejected, 22-18, a proposal calling for the plank to be dropped from the constitution...
Trade in the bazaars is brisk. It includes a thriving black market in which Soviet soldiers barter vodka, clothing, even ammunition for hashish. Here and there, turbaned vendors beckon for customers to examine straw baskets filled with lethal-looking daggers with 6-to 8-in. blades. A pair of passing Soviet privates, their Kalashnikovs at their sides, eye the knives nervously...