Word: straws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tables with Legs. At a time when American decorators are taking up Japanese-style sliding doors and silk screens, many Tokyo housewives now cook with gas, wash dishes in stainless steel sinks, and serve meals, not to a family sitting cross-legged on straw mats, but at Western tables. By 1993-"in time for my 107th birthday"-Kano hopes that Tokyo will be a city of skyscrapers, is even planning to build one 20 stories high...
...same, Harry Truman had a chilly warning to give, based on his 1948 lesson to the Republican Party that straw polls and cocksureness can upset any campaign. "I find only one thing wrong with Democrats today," he said. "They are suffering from Deweyitis, which is the worst disease in the world. You mustn't decide the election is won because the Democratic curve is going up. We've got to keep fighting until the polls are closed...
...treason. Big Labor refused to back Hayworth against Chamberlain in 1956, this year entered the Democratic primary against Hayworth with its own candidate. Hayworth headquarters accused the labor leaders of "Nazi-like" action, and Flint's C.I.O. Council President Norman Bully roared in rage: "It is the straw that breaks the camel's back! Anybody who can compare the unions with the Nazis is not a friend of labor." Hayworth easily won the primary, but Big Labor's billboards in the Sixth District list all major Democratic candidates except Hayworth...
Outside the Vatican, crowds will wait expectantly, eyes fixed on a spindly stovepipe that juts from a wall of the Sistine hapel. Reason: ballots are burned with damp straw-which makes black smoke-when votes are inconclusive, burned alone -which causes white smoke-after a Pope has been chosen. After the deciding vote, he Pope-elect is asked simply: "Acciptasne -lectionem? [Do you accept the election?]." His solemn answer: "Accepto...
...also included Berlioz, Beethoven, William Schuman). After a lengthy lecture, Teacher Bernstein, microphone clipped to his dress shirt, played a few snatches of the American songs that Composer Ives stitched into his symphony (including, in addition to the pea-green freshmen, America the Beautiful, Camptown Races, Turkey in the Straw). Then, turning to his orchestra, Bernstein whipped it through a fine performance, his hips swaying, his arms flinging wide in a characteristic expression of musical frenzy. A youthful work (1897-1901) by Connecticut's late, largely self-taught Modernist Ives (an insurance broker most of his active life...