Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Africa, is one of the poorest nations on the continent. Annual per capita income is about $40, there is no significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady movement toward political absolutism, culminating...
...same time deprived students of the facts to support their generalizations. China was revealed to be a modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts were left to reconstruct a tower out of the cotton candy spinning out of Hong-Kong: a dribble of official publications, captured documents, refugees and personal accounts of travel in China...
...Crimson harriers have been setting their sights high throughout their undefeated season and were somewhat disappointed with their performance. But Hardin made no excuses for his showing or for the team's as he sat in his Winthrop House room last night, his shinsplints wrapped in a towel and cotton swabs easing his blistered feet...
...staunchest Democratic liberals, Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff won comfortably, while Birch Bayh overcame the Nixon trend in Indiana. Humphrey's New York victory did not faze Republican Jacob Javits, whose plurality exceeded 1,000,000. Among the easily elected conservative Republicans were Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, North Dakota's Milton Young, Colorado's Peter Dominick and Utah's Wallace Bennett. Vermont Republican George Aiken, who won the nomination of both major parties, had only one complaint: mostly because of the higher price of stamps, his campaign costs since 1962 have escalated...
...TEXAS. Horn-rimmed glasses and a jaunty Stetson are the trademarks of Conservative Democrat Preston D. Smith, 56. The horn rims belong to the real estate entrepreneur and 18-year veteran of public office who had to work his way through high school at such jobs as picking cotton and pumping gas. The Stetsoned Smith is the campaigning frontiersman who flew to 249 of Texas' 254 counties to shake hands and exude confidence. Horn rims or hat, there was more than enough Smith to defeat Republican Paul W. Eggers...