Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, the campaign is already under way. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan threw a straw in the wind by re-appointing hardheaded Lord Poole as co-chairman of the party with Leader of the House Iain Macleod. Poole, who raised record sums for the Tories in the 1955 and 1959 campaigns, is the reputed author of the "Never-Had-It-So-Good" theme that helped return the government at the last election...
...Last Straw. Among those Bay of Pigs prisoners was Miro Cardona's son Pepito. As for Miro himself, he was a staunch defender of U.S. policy toward Cuba. At the time of the Bay of Pigs, he publicly denied that the U.S. had played any part in the invasion, at the same time fought off bitter exile claims that Kennedy had let them down. Miro's defense of the U.S. cost him dearly among the exiles, many of whom came to consider him a self-seeking apologist for the Kennedy Administration...
...Administration's failure, after last October's Cuba crisis, to follow through on U.S. demands for on-site missile inspection and the removal of Russian troops, came as a staggering blow to Miro. The last straw came when the Administration, without advising Miro beforehand, announced an all-out crackdown on the exiles' hit-and-run raids against Cuba...
...floor of the prison cell, the cockroach struggles frantically to escape its burning bed of straw. "Confess you're not a saint," shouts one convict hovering over the minuscule pyre, "or else the fire of heaven will consume your flesh amid hideous sufferings." Cries another: "Confess that the Prince of Evil has appeared to you and seduced you, but that you see the light and that repentance floods your heart." But the roach says nothing and goes up in flames. "She's damned. God forgive...
Help for Milquetoast. Polyethylene film has been used for years by truck farmers and up-to-the-minute home gardeners as a replacement for such traditional mulches as straw or sawdust. Spread on the ground in early spring, it has doubled the yield of tomatoes, squash or muskmelons. But as long as it had to be laid out by hand, it was far too expensive for such big-time crops as cotton. And cotton, which is one of the milquetoasts of the plant world, cries out for all the help...