Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public he turns aside questions about it by recalling the day during his freshman year in the Senate when New Hampshire's crusty Norris Cotton asked: "Can you smell the sweet smell of white marble?" No, said Baker, chuckling at the quaint image. Replied Cotton: "When you're here long enough, you will and you'll like it. From that moment on, you won't be worth a damn...
...healing process. Then through the perforation, he blows antibiotic powders into the ear canal behind the eardrum to prevent infection. Finally, he presses a thin antiseptic-soaked gauze patch against the eardrum and sends the patient home with instructions to put antiseptic drops into his ear twice daily. The cotton patch, which is replaced at two-week intervals, prevents the formation of a scab over the hole in the membrane, but allows new tissue to grow. Of the 1,408 patients Derlacki has treated by this procedure over a 26-year period, 1,106 healed without complications, most...
...White House tells it, Nixon and Wife Pat took a fancy in 1969 to the ten-room, Spanish-style house in San Clemente where the late millionaire real estate developer Henry Hamilton Cotton liked to entertain his fellow Democrats, once including Franklin Roosevelt. The Nixons wanted only the house and a parcel of 5.9 acres, but the Cotton heirs insisted on selling the entire property, covering 24.6 acres. To swing the deal, the Nixons agreed to pay $1.4 million, with $400,000 in cash and a $1,000,000 mortgage...
There are other oddities. A month after the Nixons had bought the whole Cotton estate, the White House still was saying that the President would buy only about five acres. And as late as last October, John Ehrlichman, then the President's Domestic Affairs adviser, told an interviewer from the Los Angeles Times that Nixon was still looking for a buyer for the land-the same land that the White House now claims he sold...
...bear a shock: those 1,340 were still officially listed as missing in action. Legally, the M.I.A.s are still alive, but their wives and children live in a limbo of both legal and personal uncertainties. Last week a salute to veterans was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Such public celebrations serve only to intensify the anguish of M.I.A.wives, and some stayed away. One such wife, interviewed by TIME'S Joseph J Kane, is Peggie Duggan of El Paso...