Word: straws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congested, noisy city, sometimes even a small increase can be the straw that breaks the camel's back." Wylie said. "The noise does make people nervous," Wylie added, saying he had recently received several phone calls complaining about flyovers...
...Federico Fellini's films; of a blood clot; in Rome. A native of Milan, Rota composed his first opera at 14 and in 1931 went to the U.S. to study at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Returning to Italy two years later, he continued writing operas (The Italian Straw Hat), symphonies and chamber works during his next 45 years, but achieved his greatest success scoring such films as Fellini's La Strada (1954), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½(1963) and Amarcord(1915), as well as Francis Ford Coppola's two Godfather films. Prolific and inventive, Rota...
DEWITT: Orange County, Providence, New Haven; don't ask. I had my accident in Cambridge. Never been the same. I'll never get laid again. Can't even eat. Spent the years since slurping butyl nitrate through a straw. You should see the zits...
...reported this week that Clifford acted as a straw in a real estate purchase for a rust that included George S. Davis, who was convicted last year of insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit arson...
More than a year before the first primaries, many a presidential straw is in the wind. Two current examples: > "I can say categorically that I have no political plans at the moment, but of course in the future I never exclude anything...