Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...borrowed from London's elegantly In Savita shop, owned by Mrs. Meher Vakeel, who lent her own gold-and-silver-threaded theater coat for John's raiment. Ringo wears silk tweed, with jute-thread-embroidered collar and wooden prayer beads. George sports a peasant-woven, hand-washable cotton from India. Paul's jacket is made of $98-a-yard pure-gold-threaded fabric originally woven for the ceremonial robes of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had to flee his throne before he could take delivery. The background rug, Persian but of Indian design, was borrowed from...
...spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven, or - as one Chicagoan prefers - in a Laundromat dryer set at "Cotton." The cuttings are then "manicured" by forcing them through a screen (No. 12 mesh, a protective screening used in prisons and detention homes, does nicely). Roll, ignite, puff - and off to Cloud...
Changes are unlikely. The second biggest crowd in Cotton Bowl history, 78.087 strong, was on hand - hoping to see the hometown Cowboys avenge their narrow 34-27 defeat bv Green Bay in last year's National Football League playoff. What they saw was a Packer defense that kept Dallas' highly touted offense from scoring a touchdown - the first time that had happened in almost two years. The Packers crushed the Cowboys...
...sportswriters dubbed him le Crocodile. When he left the tournament circuit in 1929, he remembered the name. Competitors like Big Bill Tilden had worn starched long-sleeved men's shirts on the courts, but Lacoste was so uncomfortable in them that he had a British haberdasher make him cotton polo shirts with collars attached. When other tennis players adopted the shirt, La coste himself went into business making sports shirts and took the crocodile as his trademark. At first the shirts were almost all white and sales were restricted to France; since the war, how ever, Lacoste has branched...
...today's farms-the agricultural arsenal also includes 880,000 grain combines, 775,000 hay balers, 655,000 corn pickers and shelters. Virtually all of the nation's wheat, corn and sugar beets are now harvested by machine. So are most soybeans, oats, cotton...