Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blazing hot day in July 1861, a little bespectacled man with a Vandyke beard, a big nose, and wearing a white linen duster and a straw hat, hurried across the Long Bridge at Washington, D.C. on to the territory of a newly proclaimed nation, the Confederate States of America. He joined the crush of junketing Congressmen, society ladies in carriages and pleasure seekers who had jaunted out to see the Union Army trounce General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's Confederates at Bull Run. The little man in the linen duster was Mathew Brady, a popular portrait photographer of Washington...
Last Saturday was sunny and warm in southern Oklahoma. On the Lazy D Ranch, near Ada, some 400 cattlemen from the U.S. and Canada gathered around a small straw-covered arena. Most of them wore ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and levis. So the most important figure of the day looked out of place in a cap and a "bulky, sheepskin-lined winter coat. He was chubby George Rodanz, 37, a Toronto, Ont. trucklines operator and cattle breeder. He had come to Oklahoma's annual three-day auction, in the heart of "Hereford heaven," to buy a prize bull...
...good chunk of its outsized circulation comes from city folk with a nostalgia or a yen for rural life. In this atomic year, The Old Farmer's Almanac's straw-colored covers looked more reassuring than ever...
...independence. War had holed the uncompleted hull. Hurriedly the Administration in Washington planned a patching job. Last week, while the tools and blueprints were still being got together, it sent Indiana's slightly dented political knight-errant, Paul V. McNutt, off to Manila as High Com missioner, to straw-boss the work...
...boots for us?' In those days I really had good boots, but this woman was well dressed, too. I looked at her and said: 'What do you want? That the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, the representative of the supreme power, should come to you in straw shoes?' People around cried: 'Right! Right!' Here is a stupid woman not to understand that...