Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast was given an impossible job--acting a play with no characterization, no good writing, and no real ideas--and even the resourceful director, Robert Berger, couldn't salvage everything. The Leverett House Arts Society should have taken a hint from Cotton Mather of the class of 1678. He knew what to do with witches...
...hospital's chief of radiology, entered the room dressed in a smock covered with pictures of Snoopy and other characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Using the time-honored gestures of the magician to assure her that his hands were empty, Brodeur reached down and pulled a cotton ball from the child's ear, then made it disappear up his sleeve. Brenda relaxed...
...hesitant to describe, much less explain it, because it seems to contain much frustrated power in its whirling vortex. If you are not alert to the possibility of meaning in such occurrences, you could merely say that it resembles one of those long thin cones you catch cotton candy with, and let it go at that...
Thompson does not differ radically in philosophy from most of the other major political figures in the state. His fellow Republicans, Congressmen Louis Wyman and James Cleveland, and Senator Norris Cotton, are all hard-line conservatives. Senator Thomas McIntire, a Henry Jackson Democrat, is the most progressive of the state's political leaders...
...variety of reasons, this entire leadership may undergo a radical transformation in November. Everyone mentioned previously with the exception of McIntire is up for re-election, although Cotton has already announced his intention to retire, and Wyman plans to become a candidate for Cotton's seat. A key cause for a possible progressive vote in New Hampshire will be the Watergate reaction, of course. Senator Barry Goldwater has estimated that Republican candidates throughout the nation will suffer a 10 per cent attrition from their normal vote as a result of Watergate. For no other state does this assessment seem more...