Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body was dressed in a khaki work shirt and dark cotton work trousers and, according to his wishes, his pallbearers also wore simple work clothes. The other mourners, including his wife and his son Land, wore Hawaiian-style attire...
...print the opinion of a "writer," it is just as significant, important and as democratic to note the experience and occupation of a cotton-mill worker in South Carolina or cowboy in Wyoming as of a former Justice Department official or retired businessman...
...stumbled frantically down the sloping rough to the left of the par-3 16th, through teeming mobs of Ban-Lon, Bermuda, cotton, Rayon double-knit and polyester, past the suspicious tournament marshals with the bright red shirts and the white styrofoam pith helmets, and on up to the place from which the players and their caddies had to exit the 17th green. "The man who leaves this green with the lowest score is gonna win the tournament," I said to a red-faced, red-eyed young man with a potbelly and glasses and a Budweiser flop hat who was sitting...
...defense. "Before this," he told the Senate leaders, "we had the case won." "Where?" asked the incredulous Scott. "I mean as a lawyer," St. Clair replied. To a man, the Senate leaders-Scott, Griffin, Texas' John Tower, Utah's Wallace Bennett and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton-were stunned by the evidence of Nixon's deception. "We were shaken," said one of them. "It's the worst thing...
...this point Nixon was ready to concede the House, but he thought he could hold on to such Senators as John Stennis, James Eastland, Cotton and Nebraska's Carl Curtis to stem any tide of defection. He knew, however, that the first 24 hours would be crucial and that this period would be tough. After the cruise, Nixon sent word for the Cabinet to assemble next morning. He wanted to rally their continued support...