Word: straws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northern polling station of Koumea last week, the first voter of the day strode in stark naked except for a straw hat. In the south, nationalists regaled reporters with accusations of repeat voting by government supporters: the ink stamped on each voter's hand to prevent his voting twice apparently washed off easily. But when day was done, the unexpected news began to spread: Olympio's party had won 60% of the votes, and 31 out of 46 Assembly seats...
...Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...
...Tyrolean pipe and declared that she had never felt better. But last week her condition worsened, and the tribal regency council insisted on moving her to the tent in the town square. "A gypsy queen," they said, "must die in her own tent on a mat of straw...
...work with, the Leverett House actors might have created a very pleasant evening; done with high virtuosity, the plays might have been high entertainment. As it is, except for a long stretch of good comic writing at the beginning of The Marriage, Gogol provides only occasional wisps of straw for these actors to make bricks with...
...circuit, his kids thought of him as almost legendary "Uncle Daddy," greeted his infrequent returns with "Make room for Daddy!" Remembers Danny: "Daddy was just a picture on the piano. The clothes I brought to them were all too small by the time I got them there." The last straw came when his daughter wrote a theme in high school ending: "What's so good about tomorrow? . . . My father is away all the time, working so that we'll be secure tomorrow, but by the time he does that we'll be grown up and gone away...