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Word: cottons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussed the case with Goldfine's good friends, Maine's Senator Frederick Payne and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton? "I think there was some discussion about that at one time, but so far as I am concerned, it was a casual discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Man in the Storm | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...third of Syria's wool exports (ten times last year's amount) and more than half of the cotton crop will go this year to the Soviet bloc. Although Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash fled to Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Restless Province | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...24th round, Terry stumbled on another pronunciation tangle, correctly spelled her substitute word. A round later, Tina failed on soubise. Chance for a male uprising-no boy has won since 1954-ended in the 26th round when Stanley splashed into canaliculus. Jolitta, blonde, scrubbed, and pretty in a pink cotton dress that she made herself, easily tobogganed through pogamoggan and rigescent. Terry spelled coruscant and sirocco with no trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The $1,000 Word | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Iron Sheets. Cotton bed sheets and pillow cases that need no ironing were put on sale by Indian Head Mills, Inc. The sheets and matching pillow cases dry to a wrinkle-free finish in little more than half the time of ordinary sheets, are available in muslin and percale, white and striped. Prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris mansion filtered through silk screens and fine sprays of water. He reduced his handshake, proffering only the index and middle fingers. For reasons known only to the great mystery man, he preferred cotton to toilet paper. He slept exactly six hours per night, and declared that he permitted himself no dreams. He once spoke of Freud as a great talent gone to waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solid Gold Scrooge | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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