Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hoagland, who has filed for bankruptcy, said the strike was merely the last straw...
...began in Maine, when George Bush, having read his advance notices, left town and was not around to deliver a victory speech after he won a Republican straw poll. Many journalists underestimated Bush's strength in Iowa and then overreacted to his victory. The day after the caucuses, NBC Correspondent Tom Pettit pronounced Ronald Reagan politically "dead." New Hampshire was easier but still vexing. Morton Kondracke of the New Republic boldly predicted that Bush would win by six percentage points and Jimmy Carter by 20. When Reagan won and Edward Kennedy came close, Kondracke offered a mea culpa...
Behind the corrugated grocery store, three horses mosied against a wire fence. Straw wisps floated from a bale mountain stacked against the slatted outhouse. Sammy reached over the wire and stroked the palamino's muzzle. Get some hay, he called to Rick and Rick stooped to gather a handful of hay. Feed him, said Sammy with one eye on Rick and the other on the horse. You do it, Rick whined. Sammy held the hay to the horse's smile while it lapped his palm. The other horses whinnied and crowded closer before Sammy and Rick headed across the dirt...
State Republican headquarters said last night a straw poll indicated that Reagan garnered 320 votes, to 233 for Bush, 76 for Anderson, and 59 for Baker...
...segregrated educational and job opportunities for women, women's right to control their own reproductive lives, and other revolutionary policies. In 1970, 50,000 people had marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in support of a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. And the final straw--when those radical weeklies, Time and Newsweek, featured the WLM in cover stories, the FBI knew the time had come to move on this growing pinko-inspired threat...