Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been an uphill fight, but we are making progress. There are now eight of us sponsoring the disclosure bill, and onetime opponents like Senators Morton and Cotton have publicly announced their support of such a requirement...
During the '20s, Georgina dances in a kind of Cotton Club revue up in Harlem until the Depression, presumably white-inspired, puts her out of work. The never-aging lovers tiff as Clem takes up the cause of the Negro, while Georgina relentlessly pursues her personality cult to stardom. In a phenomenally unsurprising ending, Clem, now a civil rights leader, clinches with Georgina, who has tasted the empty celebrity worship of white sycophants...
...changed the face of America, it was sometimes said that the churches' real mission was henceforth among the rich. Still, despite the wealth of the Great Society, the churches (along with everyone else) have rediscovered the poor, from the National Council's Delta Ministry organizing the Negro cotton pickers to the interdenominational California Migrant Ministry trying to better the lot of the grape pickers...
...rebels are fighting for full independence from the north. Northern Moslems are dark-skinned people who are either nomadic or live in mud-brick houses and work on plantations, growing the cotton that is the Sudan's only big cash earner abroad. In contrast, the flat-nosed blacks in the south live in thatched huts in the rain forests and on the savannas, are largely tied to a subsistence agriculture. Many of the tribesmen living in the south are converted Christians who feel that the regime tries to make them bow to the will-and many of the religion...
...painter "as the instrument he handles is to the musician." He said that "colors are my notes, which I use to form harmonizing or contrasting sounds and chords." He usually began a watercolor by working paint onto a wet piece of paper with a bit of cotton until the colors blended into one another. After the colors dried, he would study the composition to see what unexpected subjects it suggested to him, then outline them, a practice he referred to as "passive painting." Nolde said that "my best pictures always came as a surprise," and the biggest surprise...