Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago with a dozen "channel cats" that he had caught with a bamboo pole in the Arkansas River. Last year Farmer reaped $55,000 from 500 acres of catfish ponds. They are far more profitable than the 1,300 acres he devotes to rice, soybeans and subsidized cotton. Like most catfish raisers, Farmer can sell all he produces. Last week he sold 60,000 fingerlings and 50 pairs of brood fish, including 25 pairs of hard-to-raise "blue cats," to United Fruit Co., which hopes to raise catfish in Central American ponds...
Stephen E. Cotton, a member of the lrst-year student group that had demanded pass-fail grading, said last night, "It's clear the faculty realizes that this is a temporary solution...
...Nixons are not planning beyond the White House years, but San Clemente may well become their permanent home; they are planning to use it as their voting address. Although they spent a househunting weekend there in March, they were not the first presidential visitors. One summer afternoon in 1935, Cotton hosted a barbecue for 4,000 guests, among them Franklin Roosevelt...
...year 1692 was a very bad year for the town of Salem, Mass. During a summer of superstitious hysteria, grim events took place there that have permanently tarnished the popular American memory of its Puritan past. According to widely accepted tradition, the whole thing was whipped up by Cotton Mather and the lesser clergymen of a frowning theocracy. Before it was over, the story goes, 19 men and women were convicted and hanged as witches, and one man was pressed to death beneath large rocks for refusing to plead. The tradition holds that the executions were the result...
Leading the Leaders. The clergy were nearly powerless until the neurosis had run its course. Cotton Mather, highly respected and a believer in witchcraft, warned repeatedly against the use of spectral evidence, saying it was not to be trusted. His great failure in the matter was in trusting too much in the steadiness and good sense of the judges who, on the record, seemed to be honest and sensible citizens...