Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Addressing the first evening rally in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, Billy Graham set the tone of the meeting for the cheering crowd: "We are here to say to the world that Christian youth are now on the march, and we're going to keep marching until millions of people are brought into the kingdom...
...mornings the zealots attended training sessions in 65 locations around the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In the afternoons they participated in seminars or wandered among the booths that 206 evangelical groups had set up in the exhibition halls of State Fair Park surrounding the Cotton Bowl. Not all the groups who had booths were of the straight, nonpolitical type characteristic of Campus Crusade. One called the People's Christian Coalition was more radical in its approach to the Gospel, and caused a ruckus at a midweek meeting when some of its members joined with Mennonites to hold...
...Francis) Perry Wilson is a farm boy who went to the big city 40 years ago and struck it rich, but he never quite left the farm. Now 57, the voluble Wilson still visits the family tobacco and cotton spread near Spray, N.C., that he owns with his three brothers. More important, as chairman and chief executive of Union Carbide Corp., he is turning the nation's second largest chemical company into a much faster-growing supplier to farmers. As he puts it, Carbide is "developing chemistry-based products to capitalize on the mechanization of agriculture...
They went the rounds, from psychiatrists to chiropractors. Most treatments, however, were only shots in the dark. Private facilities offered little hope. State agencies came muffled in bureaucratic cotton, or their funds were frozen in vague categories for the handicapped that excluded Noah. Greenfeld's assessment of the situation: "Have a crazy kid and get to understand the gut meaning of a society...
...major reason for their willingness to go along with the military's ironhanded but velvet-gloved rule is Turkey's economic prosperity. Exports (primarily tobacco, textiles, hazelnuts and cotton) have reached a record high, and so has the balance of payments surplus. Tourism will set new records this year despite inadequate hotel space, and a massive suspension bridge is being built across the Bosporus at Istanbul. Social life in the cities is gay, albeit a trifle restricted. Ankara hostesses, aware that under martial law no one is allowed on the city's streets after...