Word: straws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consigned to doleful duty in a remote Australian backwater has her thoughts interrupted by a preposterous vision: "She was running through her list of unsatisfactory or irritating or boorish suitors when she saw a church made from glass towed into her field of vision by two men in wide straw hats." This is no hallucination. The crystalline minicathedral that floats into view, with a framework of iron, measures 50 ft. in length and 22 ft. 6 in. across. It weighs twelve tons...
...night he lost a straw poll in Ames County, Iowa, Bush insisted that a lot of his supporters had been busy attending social events and "debutante balls." After the debutantes had helped him win 19 percent of the turnout, Bush easily outpaced Al Haig, Pierre duPont, and Jack Kemp...
Some pro-divestment activists not on the Board said the discussion will be a straw poll of Board sentiment. But Overseers said the meeting will not necessarily determine the true sentiments of Board members...
...scientists cannot prove that something will never happen. Even so, in a dozen studies conducted on some 500 people living with AIDS-infected relatives, not a single case of casual transmission has occurred, even though they shared toothbrushes, toilets, cups, plates, toys and bed linens. "They've created a straw man," says CDC's Curran. "Let them prove that it is true...
...everything from protectionist legislation to the Missouri Congressman's votes for Reaganomics. Similarly, Dukakis' most successful ad in the South was a depiction of an acrobatic Gephardt flip- flopping through midair. Now with his favorite debating foil reduced to Simonesque proportions, Dukakis is again adrift, a candidate without a straw...