Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Encasing eggs in such materials as styrofoam, Jell-O, cotton, balloons, and even a dead chicken, a few students succeeded in hitting a bull's-eye five stories down--with their eggs intact...
...round man on a cane, Dan has lost a hip to arthritis, actually to a childhood of peanut and cotton farming, compounded by adult years operating a belt in a phosphate factory. Still, something visible remains of the athlete, the first baseman who followed Uclesee to the Albany Red Sox and later coached semi-pro teams in Tampa. "My daddy carried me around like I carried Dwight around," says Dan, noting that none of the three sons from his first marriage ever embraced the game. "Oh, but it pleased me when Dwight took it up. 'Baseball, baseball,' his mother liked...
...best curves I ever saw--he throws it so hard! The damn thing breaks nearly from the guy's shoulder to the ground." Evidently, Hubbell has been studying him on television. "That's the kids' advantage, don't you see? I was raised on a cotton farm in Meeker, Okla. Didn't even get a newspaper. Never saw so much as a picture of a real major league pitcher in his windup...
...countries to root out their drug crops. Yet despite an increase in cooperation from such nations as Thailand and Peru, many developing countries have mixed feelings about eradication programs because their peasants earn far more money cultivating opium poppies or coca plants than they would get from corn or cotton. Bolivia, for example, earns $1 billion a year from cocaine, its largest export...
Those who persist in wearing the chronically large cotton blends, however, often find themselves facing a different type of problem altogether--the dwarfing syndrome...