Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land" and to "receive the fruits of some thing not belonging to oneself." The regime has also reneged on promises to respect "responsible" private ownership by passing new decrees allowing the confiscation of property with government-determined compensation for reasons of "public utility." Says a prosperous Nicaraguan cotton farmer: "That is why there are so few of us left who are staying and reinvesting. They can take your land if they decide it is underutilized. If you show them it is really producing far above average yields, they can also confiscate it as a model for national priority...
DIED. Lucille Armstrong, 69, fourth wife of the late Louis Armstrong, who since her husband's death had continued as a globetrotting good-will ambassador for American jazz; of cardiac arrest; while visiting Boston. The couple met when Lucille was a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club and were married for 31 years, until Satchmo's death...
There is no question that expectations for curriculum and standards dropped over the past 20 years. In many schools, the art of diagramming sentences went the way of Wuthering Heights, and survey literature courses were transformed into cotton-candy electives like "Expressions of Love." Nationally, average scores on the verbal portion of SATS dropped more than 50 points from 1963 to 1980. A California survey found that many math and science texts now in use are ten to 20 years old. One book still used as a reference in a second-grade classroom near Cape Canaveral even tips off students...
Originally created by British commercial television, the series brings the household serving staff in from the cold periphery of drama to its center. All the episodes are self-contained, but there is a solid cotton thread tying them together, namely Rose, the head houseparlor-maid, played by Jean Marsh-who is also one of the show's co-creators...
Livestock will also munch on cheese, potatoes, oranges, birdseed, beet pulp, cotton seeds, tallow, brewery mash and chocolate-chip cookies. "Pigs love chocolate. They really do," says Robert Easter, an associate professor of animal science at the University of Illinois. The mash, however, causes the swine to stagger drunkenly a bit at first. Some farmers have used such products for years, especially in times of drought. But some animal nutritionists say the use of alternative feed, though not widespread at all, has become more attractive in these hard economic times. With proper dietary balancing, the experts say, the animals will...