Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clare M. Cotton, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts, said the rate of crime would be distorted because of many colleges' high proportion of commuting students...
...Cotton said that crime rates are usually given in crimes per 100,000 people. "Colleges don't come in units of 100,000," he said...
...Cotton added that requiring colleges to send reports to every applicant would be a major burden...
...over a $150 lunch of scallops and Sauterne, waxing eloquent on the merits of white vs. black truffles. Anyone who refers to Kelly's origins as "poor black" is quickly set straight with a portrait of working-class warmth. "They expect that you come off some family that picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white people. Our hand-me-downs were good hand-me-downs!" Though Kelly's grandmother was a cook, his mother was a home economics teacher with a master's degree, his father, a fishmonger, insurance agent and cabdriver...
...spent my days in math class fantasizing about Wendy, imagining the two of us doing really neat things like going to a movie or sharing cotton candy at the amusement park (I was only nine, and that really was the extent of my imagination). But I never told her how I felt, for fear of rejection or a big "Blech...