Word: cotton
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...lining up at 8:40 p.m. for the 9 p.m. bus. Standing 12 feet away, the smell of perfume fills the air. The clothes the women wear seem like nightime versions of the ones worn by the earlier bus passengers. Above-the-knees skirts have taken the place of cotton-slacks, and silver evening bags now hang where functional purses did earlier in the day. As they get on the bus, their high heeled shoes tap against the metal stairs...
...event with 32-pound. But it's 100 percent cotton...
...third time I saw Phoenix, she was wearing jeans, a grey cotton turtle-neck, and white cotton socks; it was about a week later. "I'm going to ask her out to lunch," I had told Chris. "Yeah, bullshit," he had told...
...about fifteen minutes later. She hadn't put her shoes on yet and her white cotton socks were obvious against the dark floor...
Exxon's mop-up team did earn modest praise for its effectiveness in soaking up some of the oil with cotton booms. By week's end Exxon had recovered about 130,000 gal., but the damage remains to be calculated. More than 300 birds have died, and if the oil destroys the area's marine organisms, several species of migratory birds may starve to death when they arrive in the spring for breeding...