Word: cotton
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...colonists, and with them came vast numbers of Negro slaves from Africa. The French called their Caribbean possession Saint Domingue, termed it the "Queen of the Antilles." So it was. In the 1780s, its foreign trade approached $140 million a year, with vast profits from sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and indigo flowing back home. Before long, 40,000 whites were lording it over 450,000 blacks. Then one night in August 1791, the island's painfully oppressed slaves rose in bloody revolt. Armed with pitchforks, torches and machetes and chanting voodoo dirges, they massacred 2,000 French planters...
Doubles, Harvard's strongest advantage, could prove to be the saving grace. If the singles split 3-3, Harvard is in high cotton; if the Crimson's down 4-2, there is still hope. Princeton has no wizard like Fitzgibbon this year to ensure at least one doubles victory...
...misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought and ravaged by flood and yields one-fourth as much corn, one-fifth as much cotton as the average acre of U.S. farmland. "Our agriculture," said Ceará State Governor Virgílio Távora, "is just a bit more advanced than that of the Pharaohs...
...cars can survive a route that meanders all the way from mushy beaches to 12,000-ft.-high hairpins, from riverbeds to swamps. The surface is often black-cotton soil that turns to treacle at the first trace of rain. A worse, all-weather hazard comes in the form of mud or rock walls dumped across roads by enterprising tribesmen, who live all year on the fees they earn for removing them. "In Kenya," says one old African hand, "Harambee is a national motto. It means 'Let's all push together.' The trouble is that half...
During the pre-Easter buying spree, scarf hats sold out all over Manhattan, from $65 Adolfo-designed abstracts on a high-crowned framework to a wide assortment of slightly stiffened cotton prints for less than $10. For the hat industry, the Manhattan sellout was a happy harbinger; although New York usually initiates fashion trends, the big town is not as big a hat town as St. Louis, San Francisco, Boston, Washington or Chicago...