Word: cotton
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...light cotton robe, and geta (clogs), delighted the crowd by thumping a great drum...
...Oxford. Albert comes from the "Little Dixie" corner of southeastern Oklahoma-a corn, cotton, coal and cattle area bordering on Arkansas and Texas. Albert's father was a shot-firer in a McAlester coal mine, but when Carl, the oldest of five children, was a child, the family moved to a cotton farm near the hamlet of Bug Tussle. * Young Carl went to the two-room Bug Tussle school, then to high school in McAlester (he was the first Bug Tussle pupil ever to progress as far as a high school diploma). He showed an early instinct for politics...
...first time in 49 years, the name of Sam Rayburn was missing from the ballot in Texas' Fourth Congressional District. The cotton-and-cattle-country Fourth was Mister Sam's undisputed personal fief; the Texas legislature kept it the sixth smallest in the U.S. (its population is 213,374; by comparison, a neighboring district contains 951,527 Texans) to make fence-tending easy for the aging Speaker, who died last November at 79. Six candidates, including a lone Republican, campaigned to succeed him in a special election. Nobody polled a majority, so the two who led the field...
Quite a Difference. Another crop with hefty props is cotton, and in the delta country around Hollandale, Miss., some cotton farmers this year picked two bales to the acre, almost double the past average. Cotton gins ran 18 hours a day, and wagons were backed up waiting to reach the gin. Hollandale Appliance Dealer J. W. Fore, who is also the town's mayor, already is reaping the result. "One man who lost a television set he bought from me to the finance company last year came in and bought a new stove and a dining room suite...
There are no seniors on this year's version of the BU Terriers, which features back court specialist Mike Cotton, the only returning player from last years' squad...