Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onstage at Manhattan's Bijou Theater, his skinny torso masked by a loose red sweater, his hands feverishly clutching a rolled-up newspaper. Then Monologuist Mort Sahl, 30, star of The Next President, tigerishly launches into his act. He runs on and on and on, a Beat-Generation Cotton Mather who gives half the names in the news a beating, cracking his whip up Pennsylvania Avenue one minute, down Madison Avenue the next. Ostentatiously irreverent, he is at times witty, oftener merely outspoken...
...irrigated Central Valley, spring soaked apricot trees, vineyards, alfalfa stands, tomato rows and the hopes of thousands of farmers. Sample casualty: the cotton grower, afraid that he would not be able to work his fields before the normal May 10 planting deadline; to work them later would mean the risk of bad weather during the fall picking season, lower-grade cotton, lower prices. Cotton was a $250 million crop in the valley last year...
...three men, killing Owner Blair, wounding Kenney and Wilson. Giving up the thought of robbery, the boys fled. David ran home, after firing his gun aimlessly in the street, and was found by police as he sat on his grandmother's lap, crying. Robert hid in an abandoned cotton gin, six blocks from the grocery. The police got him out by dropping tear gas into the building...
...sense of vassalage will probably remain. Since the constant fear of India forces Pakistan-in spite of U.S. military aid-to channel 70% of its budget into defense, little is left for development programs. Floods heavily cut the supply of wheat and rice in the past two years. Cotton is one of Pakistan's major exports, but because of the world glut, sales are down 40%. For lack of foreign exchange to buy raw materials and spare parts, the nation's mills now operate at only 50% capacity...
...Leeward Islands (pop. 131,600) grow sugar and sea-island cotton, are dominated by Antigua (pronounced An-tee-ga), tourist capital of the smaller islands...