Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, managed to win a few headlines with investigations ranging from the drug industry to steel pricing to boxing and baseball. In 1962, when Justice Charles Evans Whittaker retired from the Supreme Court, Kefauver's name was mentioned as a replacement, but the New Frontier didn't cotton to the Keefs independent ways and named Byron ("Whizzer") White instead...
...mechanization of U.S. agriculture has sent an incredible parade of improbable machines clanking across the nation's farm land. But the combines and cotton pickers that led the assault on traditional farming methods already seem outdated compared to the latest contraptions. On the campus of the University of California's College of Agricultural Engineering at Davis, the wildly inventive center of the farm-machinery revolution, a group of scientists and engineers are turning out automated Rube Goldberg devices faster than farmers can learn how to use them. Among the latest...
...crop, presumably grown on the river flats after the annual freshet, was lima beans, but they also ate reed shoots, berries and an unidentified tuber. They caught fish with hooks made by tying tender young thorns into a hook shape and letting them harden that way. They had no cotton or wool, but they wove cloth and fish nets of coarse fibers...
...lima bean people lived on their flat for more than 1,000 years. About 2700 B.C., 1,000 years before Moses, they disappeared. For 2,000 years the site went uninhabited; then the wholly different Chavin people, complete with cotton, pottery, and many other attributes of higher civilization, set up more advanced housekeeping on the flat where the Chilcas had lived...
...shift has a secret (besides what's under it), the secret is versatility. It comes in a vast selection of fabrics -solids or prints - varying in length from several inches above the knee right down to the ankle, though the definitive summer version is apt to be cotton, plain-necked, sleeveless, and fairly short of skirt, with side slits topped by tiny bows. Priced from $2.98 to about $50.00 the shift can go practically anywhere on practically anyone. It is fine for toe-testing at the ocean's edge, or to cover up wet bathing suits for drinks...