Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if your underwear drawer is currently filled with white cotton panties (or banana-hammocks, for you male readers), there's no need to panic. Although fashion magazines stress the importance of a stylish pair of underwear, when you're up close and personal, few people care what kind of undies you wear, as long as they're clean...
...Crisis Pregnancy Center, in a modern medical building in Poughkeepsie, New York, is greeted by a staff member seated behind a sliding glass window who hands her a clipboard with forms to fill out. In the bathroom, a chrome-and-glass cart holds a medicine jar full of cotton. But this is no doctor's office. The center--affiliated with the Christian Action Council's Care Net, a nonprofit organization based in Sterling, Virginia--has no staff members with medical training. Rather, any woman who drops by is offered a free over-the-counter pregnancy test and a good dose...
Life for blacks in the South during the Depression was scarcely better than it had been during slavery. Sharecropping farmers were paid according to the amount of cotton they picked. But the totting up was done by agents of the plantation owner, and cheating was common. Most blacks could not vote, and segregation was entrenched. "Mississippi was intolerable," says one migrant. "You had to go anyplace but here...
...Cotton says he is not optimistic thatCongress will preserve all financial aid programs...
...Both Cotton and Nixon place U.S. Sen. Edward M.Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) at the top of the listof legislators with whom they have spokenregarding the threat to student...