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Word: straws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young, sweat-soaked U.S. Peace Corpsmen emerged from the African rain forest to find a neat, white clinic in a straw-hut village - and a warm Willkommen from a couple of young German doctors, themselves members of a peace corps. If it has not happened already, such an encounter is bound to occur sooner or later. Struck by the success of the U.S. program, no fewer than 22 nations are beginning to field Peace Corps of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Aid: Peace Corps Everywhere | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Humphrey burst past his Secret Service guards and began grabbing hands in the enthusiastic crowd. He made a speech, then went with his family to Laurance Rockefeller's beach house at Cancel Bay Plantation, a resort on St. John Island. There, he changed into shorts, sports shirt and straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: Hubert's Holiday | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...seems unlikely that a final vote will come any earlier than next February. At the Dec. 1 Faculty meeting, Dean Ford plans to call for a straw vote on the desirability of retaining any general education requirement...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Constable Will Seek Reaction to Proposal | 11/16/1964 | See Source »

...Guatemala City and grumbling peasants in the countryside. Then, in mid-1963, Juan José Areválo, 60, Guatemala's Communist-coddling onetime President (1945-51) and Yanqui baiter (The Shark and the Sardines), was allowed to return to stand for election. That was the final straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Booming Toward Elections | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

Although Kerner is sure to run behind Johnson (his predicted margin in the accurate Chicago Sun-Times straw poll is 52 1/2-47 1/2), his victory, if he wins, should not be viewed from the simplistic perspective of the coattails cliche. While Johnson has held a steady lead over Goldwater, Kerner, who began campaigning only three weeks ago, has seemingly overcome an early deficit and a slight scandal within his own campaign team, to the surprise of most observers. One could fault Percy's tactics--some say he "peaked" too soon--but the other reasons for his decline typify the problems...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: End of the Road for the Chuckwagon? | 11/3/1964 | See Source »

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