Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...removal of rent-controls and sale prices on new homes may offer the straw which will break the back of the nation's general economy, throwing us into an inflationary spiral more severe than has been experienced in this country before. But, even if it did not have that result, it would seriously impair, for one thing, the veterans' housing program which has taken months to get under...
...Straw Ballots at Forums...
Soon after midnight, as the lamps burned low, the wailing abbot and priest were blinded with quicklime and bound hand & foot. They were stretched on a pyre of straw, twigs and wood outside the temple doors, saturated with gasoline, and set on fire. Long black shadows danced against the surrounding trees, and a strange perfume infused the darkness above the crackling bonfire...
With members of the Council Constitution Committee still engulfed in controversy over the actual elected-appointed ratio of Council makeup, the question will be left to a straw vote of the student body immediately after Thanks-giving...
...Last Straw. In Boonville, Mo., Herman Boggs spotted a life preserver in the river, went after it, drowned...