Word: straws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes were out on wires and I was grinding my teeth. When I chopped that shit, it fell apart like dog biscuit. Bolivian rock. I didn't care. I just made the rails about eight feet and blew myself a daydream with a McDonald's straw. Let them try and stop...
Last week, however, Percy's sunny forecast was unexpectedly clouded by a Chicago Sun-Times straw poll. The newspaper surveyed 23,976 voters across the state and found that Seith (rhymes with teeth) was leading 53.3% to 46.7%. The poll boasts an impressive record of accuracy dating back to 1932, and Percy last week acknowledged that he is behind. Said he: "It's the anti-incumbency feeling. People are frustrated and angry and want to take it out on someone, and I happen to be around...
...committee's stalemate and subsequent decision to postpone their vote for two weeks resulted from an inconclusive straw vote on whether they should support targeted divestiture or some form of total divestiture...
...Commuting from Haverhill, Mass, leaves her only six hours a day in Cambridge in which to accomplish all Harvard-related chores. Married at 19, she was divorced two years ago. "I had a 16-year marriage. I think the tensions associated with this particular experience made it just the straw that broke the camel's back...
...inspiration," no one expects that to occur. In election "by scrutiny," with secret written ballots, a Pope must receive two-thirds of the votes plus one. Two ballots are taken in succession each morning, and two each afternoon. After each unsuccessful vote the ballots are burned along with damp straw; the black smoke tells dead waiting world that the church still has no Pope. If a dead lock develops, the Cardinals can decide unanimously to elect "by delegation," choosing nine to 15 of their number to make the choice. At the moment the final decision comes, each Cardinal lowers...