Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the House approved a radical approach to the problem. By a vote of 325 to 91, it passed a bill that would for the first time pay dairy farmers not to produce milk. In the past, such "paid diversions" have been offered to grain and cotton farmers. The bill provides for payments to farmers of $10 for each 100 lbs. of milk (about 12 gal.) not produced, up to 30% of their average annual output. The price-support level for milk-the price at which the Government agrees to buy up surpluses-would be trimmed immediately from...
...because he presents no alternatives to the cruel world of entertainment he has been obsessed with since his first film, Caboret. At one point Snider visits a carnival with Dorothy's sister Eileen (Lisa Gordon), and they both seem happy riding the merry-go-round and eating gobs of cotton candy. But it is a child's paradise, and all Dorothy's childish innocence and Paul's childish rages won't gain them entrance to it. Once they discover lust and the cars, pinball and games, and ultimately guns, they are lost. Suicide is not the ultimate act of self...
...football: a religious coach, sideline sex, boots, North Dallas Forty, jeans, Semi-Tough, barbecue sauce, insurance, computers, oil and (on third down) shotguns. Before the game last week at suburban and palatial Texas Stadium, former Cowboy Quarterback-turned-Broadcaster Don Meredith was missing the seedy and inner-city Cotton Bowl, where the Cowboys used to play, and generally lamenting the passing of time. "I made up a saying once," he said. " 'All we gotta do is go down to Neiman-Marcus and buy us a pound of culture and twelve talents.' The attitude was, whatever you want, just...
...Mexico is known for its relaxed and relatively conservative state government. But there was nothing mellow or complacent about the New Mexican who addressed the liberal Americans for Democratic Action in Los Angeles last week. "The hands that pick our lettuce, the hands that pick our cotton, are the hands that can pick the next President," thundered Governor Toney Anaya. "I will travel the length and width of this great nation as many times as I have to to ensure that Ronald Reagan is retired...
...going to go as Boy George this Halloween," said one customer who refused to give his name, but at 6-ft. 8-in., he said he couldn't afford to pass up the light blue cotton and silver brocade dress that fit him perfectly...