Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their man comes close to winning in the primary. Also rumors were flying that the Governor had also had the offer of the national chairmanship of Rocky's campaign in exchange for his support. Reportedly under a Powell ultimatum, Nixon's New Hampshire triumvirate-Senators Norris Cotton and Styles Bridges and ex-National Committeeman Frank Sulloway-filed into Powell's office last week to make their peace...
...sights set on the governorship again in 1960 and Cotton's Senate seat in 1962, Powell plainly wanted the state to see who was heading the parade. Just as plainly, if anything should go wrong with the Nixon vote in New Hampshire, the state could look forward to the biggest pile-up since a freight train hit Barnum & Bailey's "Jumbo...
...Chinese satisfaction. With this stimulus to speed and agreement, Singh gave precise details of the arms, function and organization of India's border patrols, his own operations prior to the ambush, and the location of Indian check posts throughout Ladakh. As a reward, he got some padded cotton clothing, which did not fit. At this point the Chinese set out to rewrite history by re-enacting it to suit the Chinese version...
Readers who know Henry Miller only by his reputation as the bogeyman of the U.S. Bureau of Customs generally are surprised to discover that in many ways the man is as moralistic as Cotton Mather, and not much more interested in writing fiction. He seems incapable of composing more than half a dozen pages of narrative without dribbling off into the cosmic. In the present collection-largely a sampling of the literary glue that holds together the naughty passages of such works as Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, and Plexus-he interrupts a reasonably interesting travel piece to proclaim that...
...Virginian." The needs of cotton, his father's health, and melodrama send Allan at twelve to live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...