Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world policy we shall feel both safer and more hopeful." ¶ Another magazine for Nixon: Farm Journal; for Kennedy, Harper's. ¶The residents of rival Crackertown (pop. 463) and Yankeetown (pop. 700), Fla., two miles apart in northwest Florida's Levy County, whooped up their own straw vote for President. Although the combined voter registration is 97% Democratic, Crackertown (51% native-born Floridians) went 52 to 47 for Kennedy, while Yankeetown (80% transplanted) voted 104 to 87 for Nixon...
...Heerwego enters from the door on the right, dressed in sports clothes--with bright, flowered, garish sport shirt, straw hat. He is slightly chubby...
Much is made of Elizabeth Falk's Negro blood, and eventually it is an appeal to her concern for her people that induces her not to spill the beans about Poole. Yet the Negro issue is a straw man forcibly dragged into the plot; it does not belong. Another gratuitous element apparently was invented to give Betsy Blair something to do. In her role as Mrs. Poole, Betsy minces on stage, makes several totally inane and unconnected remarks to two office secretaries and the baffled Poole, and then exits--for good. As one mystified man behind me said after...
Clapping a floppy peasant straw hat on his head, Castro made a pass at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, saying that if the U.S. continues trying to "ruin our economy we will demand withdrawal of their forces." But he added that since the "dou ble dealing" State Department was looking for "a pretext to bloody our homeland" his government "will never attack the base." In the wake of Cuba's newest seizures of U.S. property, including the 13-store, $5,000,000 Minimax supermarket chain and three rubber plants worth $25 million under way, Castro announced that...
...Parry O'Brien, 28, two-time Olympic champion, delighted in calling Nieder "a cow pasture thrower" given to choking in the big events. But after hitting 67 ft. 1 in. in practice. Nieder was the picture of confidence as he strode into the arena wearing a jaunty yellow straw hat bought especially to rattle his rivals: "I decided to do a little 'psyching' of my own." Rocketing across the ring, Nieder got off a put of 64 ft. 6| in. to break O'Brien's Olympic record by 3 ft. 7! in. Puffing mightily...