Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Rhyne was born on a cotton farm in rolling Mecklenburg County, a few miles from Charlotte, son of "the most wonderful mother and father any child ever had." In the rare moments of relaxation allowed him by his breakneck schedule, he contentedly remembers his three-mile walk along dirt roads to the school where Miss Dewell Marshall taught eleven grades in one room; he remembers falling asleep during the hour-long Presbyterian sermons of Preacher Greer and Preacher Walker; he remembers the fish fries on the Catawba River and the swimming hole at Uncle Henry Rhyne...
Rhyne's chances of following after Lawyer Tillett were dim indeed: his family simply did not have enough money to send him to college. After his farm years of milking, plowing, picking cotton, bushy-haired Charlie Rhyne got a city job as a Western Union messenger boy in Charlotte. With $300 in savings in hand, he enrolled at Duke University. He had an early-morning newspaper route; he sold Bibles in West Virginia during the summer, and still ran out of money in his sophomore year and had to quit school. He hitchhiked West, dug storm sewers in Denver...
...chief appeal of the Soviet program is that Russia, a nation that still needs many raw materials and foodstuffs, can accept commodities in trade that Western countries already have in abundance. The U.S. is actually a competitor of underdeveloped nations in selling such surplus items as rice and cotton, buys many other commodities only when they are scarce...
Charles Morton (nickname: Big Man), 18, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 170 Ibs.), Alabama-born Negro, picked cotton 14 hours a day when he was seven, went to New York at 15 to live with his mother, whom he had seen previously only once a year. He confessed that he played his role "to show the others I was doing something." He swung the machete...
...court thought for a moment that she might have found one when she insisted on dancing every waltz with a handsome teen-aged count. Unhappily, the waltzing gave the dashing count a most undashing nosebleed, and by the time he finished out the evening with his nostrils stuffed with cotton, his brief career as Daisy's No. 1 romantic possibility was over...