Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekly staples. While Will Ryan shopped, his four-year-old daughter waited patiently, perched on the high seat of the family buggy. "I would never, never ask for anything." she remembers, "but how I hoped! I'd watch the corner to see if he came back carrying a straw berry cone. That was the big treat." If there was no cone, the little girl understood that her father had no money left for treats, and she stifled her disappointment. "I just waited and hoped." The future Second Lady was born on March 16, 1912, in the mining town...
...vote, and many of them are Republicans. But some Republicans will doubtless cross over to vote for Humphrey, a neighborly sort who for years treated himself as Wisconsin's "third Senator," and argued the farmers' case for high price supports louder than their own two Senators. Straw polls show farmers favoring Humphrey 46% to Kennedy's 29%, with 25% undecided...
...billowy white and indigo gowns of the western Yoruba country or the rainbow hues of the east. The Emir of Kano arrived at the entrance of the Parliament in a glittering Rolls-Royce, its horn blaring. In walked the popular Finance Minister, Chief Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh, wearing a straw boater and a figured scarf that trailed 4 yds. behind him. A jovial group of eastern M.P.s drove up in a red Dodge convertible with a big stuffed toy tiger propped up on the back seat. Finally the Speaker, in his legislative robes and wig, strode majestically into the chamber...
...last straw was Kirby's capitulation to the demands of a minority stockholder, Randolph Phillips, who had charged Young, Kirby and the oil-rich Texas Murchisons with mismanagement of Alleghany assets. Not only did the Kirby-engineered settlement force Mrs. Young to pay $1,050,000 to the Alleghany treasury (TIME, Jan. 4), but-far worse in her eyes-it gave victory and prestige to Randolph Phillips, whom she considers a mortal enemy...