Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while." He: "Jane, forget that silly dish. Come and sit with me and tell me that all my fears are untrue." But neither utters a word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with an unlikely title, The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles, has just been published by Association Press, a Y.M.C.A. affiliate. Written by Clarence L. Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister who helped found Koinonia Farm, an integrated colony of whites and Negroes in Georgia, the book transposes the writings of St. Paul into...
...m.p.h. winds that combine to produce an equivalent of -100° F. cold. Frostbite is a constant hazard, and flashlight batteries freeze into uselessness after ten minutes of exposure. Men returning from the crash site must be checked for radiation, have their garments vacuumed and their noses swabbed with cotton dabbed in alcohol-all part of the decontamination process...
...answer such questions, Pope-Hennessy turns again and again to the same motive: profit. Shipbuilders in Liverpool, French sugar planters in the West Indies, rum manufacturers in Massachusetts (there were 63 distilleries there in 1750), coffee growers in Brazil, to say nothing of owners of cotton, rice and tobacco plantations in the South-all were dependent, directly or indirectly, upon the slave trade. All their quoted comments, says the disapproving author, ring with "the eternal voice of the middleman, the levelheaded, grating speech of money...
...South Carolina cotton picker as a child, Harlem slum dweller as a teenager, Singer Kitt listened with growing impatience to the women's pernickety reports about the causes of crime in the streets. Finally she spoke up-with passion, if not with convincing logic...
...Sugar Bowl, thrice-beaten, unranked Louisiana State spotted unbeaten, No. 6-ranked Wyoming a 13-0 halftime lead, then bounced back to win 20-13. In the Orange Bowl, No. 3-ranked Oklahoma beat No. 2-ranked Tennessee 26-24. The most startling upset of all came in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, where Texas A. & M.-a team that lost almost as many games (four) as it won (six) during the regular season-upended favored (by seven points), No. 8-ranked Alabama...