Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...periodically scolded Danish workers for yearning for the better life), but has hurt his image by ignoring the sound political advice of his party cronies. He blundered, for example, by insisting on holding last week's elections right at income-tax time. That was the last straw. The Danes ousted Krag at the polls, ending the Socialist rule over their little kingdom (pop. 4,800,000) that has prevailed for most of the postwar years...
...drawn by Brubeck and his wife lola from the Gospels and Psalms. What little jazz there is in the score is far removed from the usual Brubeck sophistication: it is a more primitive, elemental sort, blended with folk overtones (including, at one point, a bit of Turkey in the Straw), depicting the rejoicing of the people of Galilee after the Sermon on the Mount...
...polls are even an approximate indication of voter sentiment, Morse, 67, may now be vincible. Last week, home for the holidays, the Senate's rule breaker went about mending some fences in an effort to stop an upstart challenger who has steadily led in polls and straw votes. The challenger is not a Republican, but former Democratic Representative Robert Duncan - the same man Morse spurned when Duncan ran for the Senate against Republican Mark Hatfield in 1966. Since his defeat (by 24,000 out of 685,000 votes), Duncan, a gregarious Portland lawyer, has never stopped running, pausing last...
EVERY presidential election year brings an assortment of straw votes aimed at indicating how part, or all, of the electorate might feel about candidates or issues. Next year TIME will underwrite a vote that will be different from any ever attempted before. It will be a nationwide presidential primary on college campuses, scheduled for April...
...music troupe and cheered by older, working-class whites, many of them emigrants from Dixie, Wallace served up his set harangue against "perfessers, liberals, social engineers and all those people who want to tell the rest of us how to live." Knowing his audiences, which were tuned up by straw-hatted California belles, he turned in effective, skillfully orchestrated performances. His trouble in California, however, is that many of the conservatives who applaud his views would probably wind up by voting for Governor Ronald Reagan in the presidential primary...