Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Santa since the Kennedy days; he has pieced together a flawless costume and has grown a real white mustache that cannot be pulled off. His tummy is the creation of his daughter Debbie, who glued together several pieces of foam rubber and sewed it all up in red cotton for the benefit of the republic...
...really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open car going 50 m.p.h. or pluck the cotton wadding out of a pill bottle...
...into a football helmet: Star Split-End Morell George of Detroit's Central High School switched to braids after continuous combing bouts with his crushed Afro. Other blacks who still favor the 'fro find that braids are better than any combs, conditioners or sprays in creating the cotton-candy shape. After a week of being tightly bound, the braids, when freed, fluff out into an attractively puffy bush...
...Year approaches with the climactic absurdity of the Rose - Orange - Gator - Sugar - Cotton - Liberty - Fiesta bowl as millions will sit mesmerized in front of the tube watching the perennials (USC, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama....) meet. It is big-time football, the big schedule and the big loot, with a few exceptions (like coach Joe Paterno of Penn State) the guy on the field, the ice or the hardcourt gets lost. Big-time football, big-time money, who cares that Oklahoma is on probation and won't play post-season this year because of recruiting violations or that...
European trade with the Americas was largely due to increasing demand for certain goods--especially sugar, which had been introduced into the New World at about 1650. As a result of Europe's rapidly growing demand for sugar and later cotton, the plantation as an economic unit achieved prominence. The new plantation economy brought Africa into the foreground because plantation owners were quick to adopt forced labor for their main work-force. Slavery became one of the basic economic institutions of a large part of world production, and transatlantic slave trade became a booming business for English, New England...