Word: straws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through August, under the blue skies of Central China, the blue-robed, sun-browned peasants had watched their rice fields slowly darken in green, then fade to the color of straw. Within their firm husks the grains of rice had whitened and hardened. It would be a good harvest. Prices were dropping in anticipation...
...Cuernavaca Prison 50 to 60% of the prisoners use the privilege, which is granted on Thursday or Sunday. Two small rooms, furnished only with a petate, or straw mat, are available: if a man's serape is hung in the doorway, the room is busy. The women need not be married to the prisoners but must not be syphilitic. Sometimes unmarried convicts take a fancy to girls among the prison visitors, says Sociologist Hayner, "and are able to make the proper arrangements." At Morelia about 13%, and at Guadalajara about 20% of the men enjoy visitas conyugales, which...
...straw in the anti-Axis wind was an editorial in a quickly-suppressed edition of the Japanese magazine News Week, usually close to the Foreign Office: "German momentum has been definitely arrested. ... By the end of the third year the finish of the horrible carnage should be within the grasp of the Allies...
These words in the price-control bill now before Congress prompted the American Newspaper Publishers Association last week to issue an eight-page alarm. They meant, as the Association read them, that the President could dictate whether, how and how much businesses could advertise, the last straw in the Administration's repeated attacks on advertising...
...months after the war started, Dr. Todt was tossed still another job. As Minister for Armaments and Munitions, he became straw boss for the whole German munitions industry...