Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convinced that anyone who could make money on "such tripe" could certainly run a cotton mill, father Springs took his son back as a vice president (after making him promise that he would write no more books). Since the elder Springs's death in 1931, Elliott, who still flies his own plane, has run the family's vast (some 550,000 spindles) cotton empire, one of the three biggest...
...Cotton-haired Boss Ed Crump, who not only looks like Foxy Grandpa but acts like him, has had it all his own way in Tennessee's Democratic politics for years & years. Many a Tennessean had come to believe that nobody would ever dare challenge the old Red Snapper of Memphis...
...Henry Cotton is the highest paid and best dressed pro in Britain. At last year's British Open, he parked his big black Rolls-Royce beside the 18th green at Hoylake, so that he could drive away triumphantly when his day's work was done (he finished sixth). No such liberties were permitted last week at Muirfield, which Scots regard as hallowed ground. In the qualifying round he shot two 69s, to lead the field. The skeptics considered it a fluke. Some crack golfers had struggled in behind him. From the U.S. had come 13 talented men, including...
When the real shooting began, Cotton kept close to the leaders with a 71. Next day he was presented to King George VI at the first tee (the first time a reigning monarch had ever witnessed a British golf championship). With his King watching, Cotton smacked a prodigious drive down the fairway. He birdied that first hole. Then he proceeded to tear Muirfield apart-green by green and fairway by fairway. His best round: a blistering 66, a record for the course in a British Open...
...stepped out for the final 36 holes, his tanned face furrowed, a spectator murmured: "He looks like the wrath of God." Knowing how he hates distractions, Cotton's plump, wealthy wife (daughter of an Argentine cattle baron) followed him at a safe distance. He had a four-stroke lead to protect...