Word: cottoning
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...destroy a tradition is sometimes necessary, but in this case completely unwarranted. To claim that twine and cotton tied through the windows of the Hall would damage the structure seems ludicrous: if the building is that fragile, how can is possibly be safe to live in? These bricks have stood the test of time, as is proved by the initials scratched in them from the last century...
...plot and a script devoid of sharp dialogue. Dalton is a sufficiently handsome Rhett, although he lacks the intelligence and wit of Gone With the Wind's Clark Gable. What's more, Dalton is not given resonant lines like the movie's "All we've got is cotton and slaves and arrogance." Instead he is obliged to say things like "You're trying to pass yourself off as a lady -- you couldn't fool a blind deaf-mute...
...Internet will serve as host to its first live concert, as real-time audio and video of theRolling Stones' November 18 Dallas show will be "multicast" from the Cotton Bowl. The Stones are offering the free 20-minute preview to promote their November 25 pay-per-view event and to test current Net capabilities. Though the broadcast will make cyberhistory, video quality will be far inferior to television and usual Internet access methods won't provide "Satisfaction." Powerful computers, like those used as servers, must be configured as hosts, capable of receiving the feed which comes over the Multicast Backbone...
...followed by soft, moon-washed nights, the private estimates have climbed even higher, to 10 billion bushels, about 500 million beyond the old record set in 1992. Add to this overflow 2.5 billion bushels of soybeans -- almost 240 million more than the historic crop of 1979. And when cotton, rice and a hefty 2.3 billion bushels of wheat are counted, it is no wonder that usually taciturn agronomists and economists turn lyrical over the continuing capacity of this nation to astound itself with the production of staples. "It is just truly remarkable that farmers could bounce back from the floods...
Well into his tenth decade, one could spot his cotton-white tufts of hair--always protruding from an austere, black yarmulke--throughout his adopted Israel, visiting this university or that Kibbutz...