Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voters bestow. More than two candidates will claim victories, moral or otherwise, and at least one will call it quits. The primary, as is its wont, will mark a watershed in this campaign, separate wheat from chaff, get the ball rolling, shift the momentum, be the straw that broke the camel's back or prove the turning point. But no matter how it turns out, New Hampshire will be judged by the mythos which have surrounded this poly-sci microcosm and given it the dubious privilege of determining political fortunes...
...hillsides, older women still wear quichenottes, the starched white bonnets of Brittany. Some of the countryfolk have never traveled the dozen miles to Gustavia, the capital and only town. They are fisherfolk, sailors, carpenters and masons; the women weave delicate hats (calèches) and bags from straw...
...straw hat with a striped band may mean campaigning in the U.S., but in England it's boating on a river." Ideas may come from unlikely sources. One of his son's comic books inspired the drawings for a Science story on black holes in September 1978. "Tool catalogues are particularly helpful," Holmes says. "An ax can be used for chopping a budget or firing Cabinet members." A glistening picture of Body Builder Arnold Schwarzenegger is kept on file to provide another metaphor. Explains Holmes: "Some day the dollar is going to have muscle again." Such imagination...
Although the group made no official decisions on philosophical principles, appointing instead an eight-member committee to draft final language for the proposals, a non-binding straw vote showed widespread support for the following proposed planks...
...caucus itself. Rather than depend on just a blackboard, for instance, he decided to set up his own slide projector to display the returns on a screen. He also jokingly mentioned his scheme to send one of George Bush's most articulate supporters out to phone in the straw-poll results. "While he's gone," chuckled Kalal, thinking how he might then snatch up all the delegates for Reagan, "I'm going to move very rapidly...