Word: straws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College of Liberal Arts forum, a student government organization representing 4500 undergraduates, voted Wednesday to demand that the trustees fire Silber. The administration's effort to fire the professors was the "last straw" that led the students to seek the ouster of Silber, Jon C. Hopwood, a delegate to the forum, said yesterday...
Baker continued to Concord, N.H. and to Maine, where today he will woo 1500 Maine Republican leaders scheduled to conduct a straw poll...
...concrete terms, the weekend vote -held in 67 Florida counties, from the rural panhandle to the posh Gold Coast-was a meaningless preliminary to an equally meaningless straw vote that will be held in mid-November to sample presidential preference. None of the rivals will collect a single vote good for the 1980 nomination; the March primary will determine that. Yet the practical irrelevance of the exercise did not keep the forces of President Carter or Senator Edward Kennedy from spending extravagantly. "Florida for Kennedy" will have laid out $175,000, Carter $250,000. What they hoped...
...prize at the end of the obstacle course was a mere 879 delegates. These plus another 838 officials and appointees will vote in next month's straw poll. Since nearly all of these delegates are almost certain to be for Carter, the President is the odds-on favorite to wind up with votes to spare in November...
Fang Yi and his colleagues have set difficult goals for a country that still relies heavily on human sweat. In the cities, women sweep the streets with brooms they make out of straw. In the countryside, road crews work with pick and shovel; when steamrollers are available, they are usually fuming, coal-burning monsters. Despite the vaunted Chinese emphasis on the dignity of the masses, produce is still conveyed by pedal-powered carts carrying burdens several times heavier than their human engines...