Word: straws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the dark dining room, a single straw mat and a slender wine glass had been put out on the table for Kennedy, and now he set another place for his guest. A call came from his son Patrick, 11. Kennedy bellowed into the phone after he listened to the boy tell about catching a manta ray that day. He lighted some candles, opened a bottle of white wine, and began tasting his cooking. "Yes, I would like to be President," he said frankly. "Yes, I feel I can do the job. But this isn't the time...
...accused of throwing his drink at a woman in a Washington bar, the White House issued a 33-page denial. This time its response was confined to a taciturn "We have no leads, and are not pursuing it." But Jordan was irate. "Last night might have been the last straw for me," he said. "People will be lining up to throw pies in my face if I try to go anywhere...
...rear view of a G-stringed nymph was bad enough. The photo of a smiling black woman swathed in chains was even worse. But the final straw was the June 8 poster of a scantily clad prostitute proffering the wares of her trade. When that picture ran on the cover of Stern, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly (close to 2 million in circulation), ten feminists demanded a court order barring the magazine from depicting women as "mere sex objects." Insulting one woman, they charged, is insulting them...
...biggest in the U.S., with its 130 acres attracting 2.5 million visitors annually. Crowds pushing shopping carts stroll through the grounds, consuming heroic quantities of junk food and observing the outlandish garb that customers wear as part of the ritual. Henry Cortez, a robust Mexican American, sports a huge straw hat and tows Grandson Douglas around in a wooden wagon. "This is my flea-market hat," says Cortez, who has been going to the San Jose market almost every weekend since 1960. "And this is my flea-market wagon. I come to visit people...
Sunday was apparently the last straw. It is unclear what set Billy off, but after the Yanks' 3-1 win in Chicago, he attacked both Reggae and Steinbrenner. He told Reggae, on his first day back, to shut up. Then he said that Jackson and Steinbrenner deserved each other, calling Reggae a liar and Steinbrenner "a convict"--a reference to his boss's conviction a few years back for illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's wonderfully clean 1972 campaign. It's not nice to call your boss a convict, even if it's true. Martin knew what he was doing...