Word: cotton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...replete with lilac-laced trellis and front porch. Phillips recalls that trucks used to oil the dirt road in front of her house to keep the dust down and that Hampton phone numbers "were particularly easy to remember. They consisted of only two digits." At age eleven, she tried cotton picking: "I can still feel the burlap bag cutting into my shoulder." Twelve years later she dropped out of the University of Georgia to work for the Atlanta Constitution, joined the Washington Post in 1968. She frequently covered civil rights stories while a reporter and has kept up with...
...population drain in which 3.5 million residents fled the region between 1940 and 1950 was reversed in the last census. In a recent survey six of the ten states with the largest growth rate in new manufacturing plants were states of the Old Confederacy. The agrarian economy of King Cotton has been top pled by agribusiness. Sharecroppers have been replaced by machinery; new cash crops and livestock?peanuts, soy beans, poultry?have idled cotton gins and made rural entrepreneurs out of once hardscrabble farmers. Many of the rest simply moved off the land and into the cities of the North...
...rise to national prominence. Emmet Till, a 14 year old child from Chicago who had gone South to visit relatives, was kidnapped in August of 1955 by white men who beat his body into mutilation, shot him through the head, and then tied him to the wheel of a cotton gin and dropped him into the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. The two men who were tried testified at the trial-at which black reporters were segregated-that Till had whistled at a white woman. They were acquitted; however neither the symbolism of the murder act itself nor that...
...wine, preferably an Egyptian red called Omar Khayyam. He is a snappy dresser who favors tasseled loafers, elegant blazers and expensive British-styled suits. When he goes back to Mit Abu al Kom, though, Sadat on occasion likes to change from city clothes into the comfortable flowing galabia, the cotton peasant garment that looks like a nightshirt...
With at least 15,000 Soviet military personnel now in Egypt and most of the country's cotton crop earmarked for Russia in payment for aid, Sadat could have a difficult time escaping the bear's hug. Nonetheless, he considers the newly arrived planes, tanks, guns and missiles to be essential elements in a defensive line, established with Russian advice, that runs all the way along the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal and up the Nile Valley...