Word: cottoning
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...Clown around. The Big Apple Circus is in town until the end of May. Be a little kid for the day and piss off stuffy parents. Let your date see your care-free side and grab a beer to wash away the taste of stale cotton candy...
...shirt and tight black pant outfits. At this moment, a horrible thought crossed my mind. What if No Doubt doesn't play instruments anymore? What if they just sit on stools, wear matching costumes (adorned with some individualizing accessory, of course) and sing love medleys? I was afraid this cotton candy crowd would scream the entire in a deafening tone, as though being stabbed...
...most quoted--student at Harvard by becoming the president of the Undergraduate Council. That's quite alright, because the UC isn't even the favorite extracurricular activity of Sterling Price Adams Darling Jr. '01. With a Southern drawl and strict no-jeans policy, he seems suited for cotillions and cotton plantations, not a throng of 1,700 Latin students who laugh at his name, tell and retell legends about him and hang on his every necktie--but that's where Darling most wants...
Between breakfast and lunch, the landscape turned swampy. I was fascinated by the strange rectangular pools bordered by skinny strips of land. They were catfish ponds. They soon gave way to fields of bright green grass alternating with patches of cotton stubble. Nearing Yazoo City, Miss.--our second stop after Memphis, with six more to go--we watched folks hanging out on their stoops, kids playing, pickup trucks winding along two-lane country roads. To this untutored Yankee, it was a first glimpse of what I had known only from fiction and song, from Flannery O'Connor to Hank Williams...
Protesters have focused on a 10th-floor complex, the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, where 17 cotton-top tamarins and six vervet monkeys are held captive for research...