Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week and pledged "full federal support for their recovery and rebuilding efforts." Even the eldest Mississippians could not remember such biblical rainfalls (57 in. since last October). Said one: "Everything that could be flooded has been flooded." Perhaps 15% to 20% of the region's cotton crop will have to be written off, along with a large portion of the soybean harvest. An Illinois agricultural official said flood water had devastated 45,000 acres of the winter wheat crop...
Shadow of a Doubt. One of the films Hitchcock thinks his best, with Joseph Cotton playing a psychotic murderer hiding in a small town behind his mild-mannered exterior. Technically, this is one of Hitchcock's subtlest films. This lack of ostentation is what makes it so effective...
...hundred miles north of Los Angeles, beneath the snow-dusted mountains of the Tejon Pass, the San Joaquin Valley begins its long, level stretch to the northwest, crisscrossed by moist fields of newly seeded cotton. Dotted across the farm land are the horse-head beams of oil wells pumping riches out of the ground. Water rolls through the locks and valves of a vast irrigation network. The lush valley has been drilled, plowed, fertilized, sprayed and pummeled into productivity by a succession of determined refugees from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas and by a sprinkling of Armenians, Italians and Basques...
Proud Flesh includes, however, one fine set piece of the absurd: the mock-epic failure of a farmer named Hugo to get his cotton to the town gin, in a truck with five bad tires (counting the spare), on a road monopolized by a brindled milch cow named Trixie. Here calculated excess works in the cause of comic relief, suggesting that the future of the Southern novel may belong to the tall tale rather than further variations on the gothic. Melvin Maddocks
...wearing a gold fireproof jumpsuit, wriggles through the glassless window in the driver's door, which, for safety reasons, is welded shut. At 2 p.m. the starter says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." The 30 drivers rev up their 500-h.p.-plus monsters, creating a thunder that pierces the cotton stuffed in drivers' ears. After two laps, the pace car pulls away, the flag is dropped and the race...