Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-two-year-old Mohammed Shah Pahlavi, the Allies' straw man in Iran, proved last week that he is not too young to understand affairs. In his first statement for the U.S. press, he made clear that as ruler of Iran, which is the switchyard of Allied-Soviet traffic, he had sense enough to know on which side his throne was buttered...
...straw bosses who went to Wormuth's emergency school last week will learn how to recognize "accident-prone" employes, especially among the thousands of green hands going into war industries...
Stanford's football squad, in a premature straw vote last fortnight, selected the University of Texas for its opponent in the Rose Bowl New Year's Day. Last week both Stanford and Texas were embarrassed rose-red. Stanford, standout team in the Pacific Coast Conference, was tripped by Washington State, 14-0-13, for its second defeat of the season. The Texas Longhorns, who had crushed most of this year's opponents by five or six touchdowns, were rudely bounced out of the undefeated ranks by Texas Christian...
...Ambassador. I remember when I came over here many years ago ... we were asked to tea at Buckingham Palace and wanted to be very correct. I remember getting a tall hat-the first I had ever worn-and a tail coat. We presented ourselves. But everybody wore a straw hat and a short coat...
...days later we were asked to the races. I told a friend I would not make a fool of myself again. So I wore a short coat and a straw hat. Everyone else had a tall hat and a tail coat. I retired then from the diplomatic scene...