Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought against foot-& -mouth disease. When a tuberculous cow is dead, the chief danger of spreading TB is past. Not so with foot-& -mouth disease, which is caused by a nonfilterable virus carried from place to place by cattle or humans, by flying crows, by a piece of barnyard straw wafted in the wind...
...Gallup polls last week showed that if the 1944 election were held now, Franklin Roosevelt would win hands down and then some. In the straw balloting he led Wendell Willkie 59-to-41, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 55-to-45 (the same margin he had over Wendell Willkie in 1940). Most startling change in the President's vote-getting power: increased war popularity among upper-income groups...
...hungry, ragged men, women and children swept through the city's debris in an orgy of looting. They slapped and clawed each other for owner ship of valuable and valueless things. One man clutched enough boxes of toothpicks to pick his teeth for life. Another stacked a dozen straw hats on his head. A woman juggled seven umbrellas. Two others squabbled over a jar of tomatoes, then dropped the jar as a small boy sprayed them, with a hairdresser's lotion. From the balcony of one store the looters tossed goods to carts lined up below. One driver...
...newly installed racks hold a few bicycles, and a sign reads: "Officers Club. For members only." From one or two of the ten still playable courts comes the subdued pock of a quiet game. Ten other courts are overrun by rank grass. Old Tom Pettitt, the Superintendent of Tennis, straw hat on head, still sits on the clubhouse porch. The deserted Championship Court is kept inviolate, awaiting the return of champions...
...hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free doughnuts. They get one free hot meal per shift, unlimited free vitamins. They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida...