Word: cottoning
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...make your own judgment about the Willie Horton ad. But when the southern regional coordinator of the Bush campaign says we're going to push Mike Dukakis so far to the left, he's going to be to the left of collard greens, black-eyed peas and strip-row cotton, that's not very subtle...
...need a president in the tradition, yes, the liberal tradition, of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy," Dukakis told a depot rally in Hanford, a valley community surrounded by sprawling cotton farms...
...States remain puzzlingly obtuse about UB40's charms. Is it the band's slightly arcane name (which comes from the code number on a British unemployment form)? Is there some possible alphabetical confusion with another, even more successful band of Irish lineage? Or does America just not cotton to the trim reggae beat and keen, often politically pointed lyrics that UB40 handles so smoothly...
...odor of cesspools and defective septic tanks: in addition to 28,000 people without water in the El Paso area, some 53,000 live without sewer systems. At a crook in the road outside Socorro, the nun pulls the car over and gestures toward a field of white cotton. "The waterlines just stop there. Can you believe it? All these people want is a basic right. They shouldn't have to beg for water...
...firmly in Bush's hands. Dukakis, who had boasted in August that he would win the state, is belatedly retreating. Last week his two chief organizers transferred to the Midwest, and more are to follow. He has also given up much of the Cotton South. From a meeting of some of his Dixie managers, word seeped out that Democratic hopes were reduced to what they grandly called the "Big Five" Southern and border states -- Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina. But they add up to just 51 electoral votes, and Dukakis at the moment can count on none of them...