Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spires, son of Arthur ("Big Boy") Spires, was located in a project called Magnolia Heights, near a cotton hamlet named Flora. White had spoken to Spires on the telephone earlier, and Spires had agreed to ride over to Jack Owens' place and make a little music, asking only that White "bring a lift- up." To that end, bourbon had been laid in, and now as Bud Spires gets into the car, he mentions that he "wouldn't mind a little something to get my nerves on the ready." So Spires settled his nerves, and so did White...
...blues would disappear someday because kids are not much interested in it and anyway, times are not as hard as they once were. Son said his first guitar was a Gene Autry model that cost $8.50, and at the time he was being paid $1 a hundredweight to pick cotton, so he had to pick 850 lbs. of cotton to pay for it. That was hard times. And when he was digging graves, he got $15 a grave, and the worst business ever was a three week period when nobody died. "Then all of a sudden they all started dying...
...five-year-old son Brandon. Joel Stillman, 38, and his wife Renee, 38, of suburban Detroit spent $800 on smart-looking ski outfits and equipment for their son Jonathon, 11, and daughter Sara, 8. Karen Topalian, 40, bought her daughter Kendra, almost 2, a $120 yellow pima cotton frock. Says Topalian, who lives in Cohasset, Mass.: "I love my children to look nice...
...traditional dress but to her life. From her first crude attempts at the difficult reverse applique, a Kuna woman will stitch on her mola daily, first for her trousseau, then to sell. Yet when the corps arrived in 1963, Indian women were shedding their artful garb for cheap cotton dresses, and it was feared the unique craft of the mola would be lost, along with the cash it earned the Indians. The volunteers organized a Cooperativa de Productos de Mola. By the time I arrived to organize the eager women on Playon Chico, the co-op had grown...
Corriere said that security is extremely lax in the student dorms. "They prop doors open with pizza boxes and cover locks with cotton and tape so they don't have to worry about getting locked out," Corriere said...