Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elsewhere, Prairie View's winning streak washalted at one game after a 55-40 loss to Gramblingat the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The Panthers' NCAArecord 80-game losing streak ended last week witha win over Langston...Ricky Williams ran for aschool-record 350 yards and had five TDs as Texasbeat Iowa State 54-33. Williams set NCAA recordsfor career TDs (65) and points by a non-kicker(394)....Tim Rattay threw for 539 yards and sevenTDs--five to Troy Edwards--as Louisiana Tech beatBoise State...
...trend to luxury means cotton sweaters areout, wool and cashmere are in, say fashionretailers. And as the price of these formerlybourgeois fabrics are coming down, demand for finewoolens is skyrocketing...
What this means in actual threads is lots of variations on cargo and sailor pants; safari-esque tops that Bartlett calls "ranger" shirts; jackets and trousers made of sailcloth, waxed cotton or suede; and colors that range from "cement" and "sand" to "citrus." Bartlett offers his customers a chance to dress dangerously but not ludicrously (well, except maybe for the hot pink cashmere stretch jacket paired with hot pink leather pants...
Carneal, meanwhile, cultivated a reputation as a jokester but was depressed. Boys flicked water on him in the school bathroom and stole his lunch. Students said he had "Michael germs" and baited him relentlessly. He didn't cotton to the Boy Scouts or the karate classes he briefly tried, leaving him to stew over his indignities alone. The week before his rampage, he told an evaluator, a couple of boys threatened to beat him up in the band room. When he pulled a .22-cal. handgun in response, he recalled, they taunted him: "You couldn't hurt anybody with that...
...They spoke darkly of failing mental health, of incipient Alzheimer's, of the sinister influence of the new Mrs. Goldwater--a left-winger! A more likely explanation is that conservatives, like liberals, had always mismeasured him. As a presidential candidate, Goldwater traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to call for eliminating cotton subsidies; he went to Florida to advocate dismantling Social Security; in Tennessee he said he wanted to sell off the Tennessee Valley Authority. For such a man, it was not so long a leap to opine 20 years later, during the ascendancy of the religious right, "Every good Christian ought...