Word: cotton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Compared with earlier spaceflights, the shuttle's journey will be a luxury cruise. Columbia's interior is pressurized to a normal earth atmosphere so the astronauts will be able to wear comfortable cotton coveralls for most of the trip. Young and Crippen will sleep in their cockpit seats, tote along an electric food warmer to heat up freeze-dried and other packaged food (sample menu: shrimp cocktail, beefsteak, butterscotch pudding and grape drink). On future missions, with as many as seven people aboard, Columbia will have a fully equipped galley as well as sleeping bunks. Young...
...result of last summer's drought in the producing states. The impending sandwich crisis may be averted, however. From Texas, which also helps fill the oil gap, comes a substitute spread that sticks to roofs of mouths as fondly as the real stuff. Made from organically grown glandless cotton nut kernels mixed with 15% peanut oil, the American nut butter is higher in protein and lower in calories than peanut preserve. The Madeleine & Charlotte's brand, available in chunky salted and creamy unsalted varieties, is already selling in West Coast supermarkets...
...field. "In El Salvador, the exploitation of the peasants has definitely ended," he told them. "Today you work the land for your own benefit." Another junta member, José Ramón Avalos Navarrete, presided over ceremonies at a sugar and coffee plantation near the Guatemala border. At a cotton plantation near Usulatan, Junta President José Napoleón Duarte told his listeners to look forward to elections as early as next winter...
...determine what substances are primary irritants, clinical ecologists isolate the patient in a carefully controlled environment. At Brookhaven, for example, Rossall lives in a ceramic-tiled room (she will later move to one covered with porcelain). Her mattress is pure cotton, as are her pillows, sheets and clothes, all of which are washed in unscented baby soap or baking soda. Visitors dress in cotton garments and must not wear makeup, perfume or deodorant. At each meal she eats only one dish-ranging from organically grown vegetables to wild game such as bear and lion-prepared in aluminum pans. She drinks...
What Coward did for the bright Weary of It All worldlings of London, Ellington did for the smart, sassy Take the "A " Train Harlem-Manhattan axis. This mood resonates throughout the show, particularly in Set Designer Tony Walton's scenic imagination. He inscribes the Cotton Club in neon across the night sky rather as Picasso painted with a flashlight in the dark. Through dark blue and white lighting, a flight of stairs becomes a piano keyboard to prance...