Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close to where people live," said Raoof, still choking 30 hours after the gas seeped through his home. "They could have gone out in the jungle where no one lives. Now we are mourning our dead." As he spoke, silent processions of survivors carried the dead, wrapped in white cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, through the streets of the poisoned city to the nearby Chhola Vishram cremation site. There, four, five, six bodies were thrown onto a pyre that usually served only one. Rows upon rows of pyres burned through the night. -By Pico Iyer...
...those who died, there was no solitude. The traditional Hindu rite of cremation is one body, one pyre. But there were too many dead, and not enough firewood. The only solution was to place the dead, wrapped in cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, as many as five or six corpses together, on one pyre. As a result, huge fires burned all night long, sending smoke and flames arching up the sky as if death had become a permanent part of the countryside...
...COTTON CLUB Directed by Francis Coppola Screenplay by William Kennedy and Francis Coppola...
...George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark Twain, got a patent for a stickum-coated scrapbook that sold...
...most is New York. New York City has long been a film center in its own right, and now has a one-third share of U.S. movie production. In 1983, 66 movies were shot there, including The Pope of Greenwich Village, Ghostbusters and Francis Coppola's The Cotton Club. In the first half of this year...