Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They were opposed to the New Deal's centralization of government. Straw-in-the-wind: one of the strongest States' rights declarations came from Utah's Herbert B. Maw, longtime coattail-rider to the New Deal...
...week's end Tom Dewey-candidate or not-still led the Gallup straw poll for Republicans with 37% (he had dropped a point). Next in line: Wendell Willkie 28%, General Douglas MacArthur 15%, Bricker...
...Russians Waited. Later in the winter a member of the Inter-Allied Commission visited the camp at Delfa, was shocked by the filth, the coverless straw pallets, the crusts of bread. He promptly got supplies from U.S. quartermasters. British soldiers pitched in and built a new internment camp for the Russians just outside Algiers...
...real hatred in the hearts of our soldiers, sailors and marines. I've heard many speak with contempt for their foes, with disgust, dislike and many times with pity-but never with hatred. The Church, however, may arouse hatred against itself by a foolish campaign against a straw man (hatred) at this crucial moment...
...crowd with his green and white pin striped V-neck sweater; Professor Barloon was his usual sartorial self and played a faultless game at right field in a pair of white shoes and a form fitting light tan gabardine suit, while Slugger McNair cavorted around in a natty white straw...