Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides earning historical fame for the biggest margin of victory ever voted in a Harvard straw poll, Lyndon Johnson also must be noted as one of a very small number of Democrats ever to receive this honor. From the party's inception in the 1850's until World War II, Harvard only once failed to prefer the Republican standard bearer...
...CRIMSON will conduct its quadrennial straw vote for President and Vice-President in the dining halls tomorrow night...
...When he called for his bill, it totaled one rupee. He was astounded to find that the price of a cup of coffee had gone up from 45 to 50 paise, making two cups an even rupee (21?). Kapoor shouted the grim news to friends. "This is the last straw!" cried someone. "No, the last cup!" yelled someone else. Suddenly the customers were on their feet, protesting against the rising prices and calling for a boycott. Hastily finishing their coffee, customers marched out without paying...
...Woman of Straw. "Take off that uniform and look like a woman. Rustle, crackle and swish!" bellows Ralph Richardson. Nothing could be easier for Gina Lollobrigida. As the nurse assigned to a crotchety British tycoon who spends his days in a wheelchair, Gina soon rustles the old gent into a marriage proposal. She gets the idea from his sexy nephew, Sean Connery-an actor who occasionally takes leave of his James Bond roles, only to find that crime pays equally well elsewhere. Just as one might expect, Sean and Gina plan to share the inheritance once Richardson kicks off. Just...
...when Gina shuffles a corpse from a yacht to a Rolls-Royce to a country house. She faces each plot twist with swish and crackle, and is about to collect the millions when-but never mind. The real mystery is that anyone would pin a title like Woman of Straw on a movie starring Lollobrigida...