Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coach Jack Bicknell, who will lead the 9-2 BC Eagles against Houston in the Cotton Bowl Jan. 1, was voted the New England Coach of the Year Award...
...cold figures are not what has warmed New Englanders, who as a rule show no more passion than penchant for this primal sport of Texas and Ohio. Boston College was 0-11 as recently as 1978, and while the Eagles are currently 8-2 and bound for the Cotton Bowl, no one expects that to be their standard fare from now on. Locally, the Flutie phenomenon has been regarded as an age of delight that will never be repeated, and maybe the country should share the lament...
...South, Mondale was counting on a huge black vote to make Dixie Democratic once again. Inspired in large part by Jesse Jackson's oratory ("Hands that picked cotton can now pick Presidents"), new black voters did register Democratic in record numbers. But the Republicans had added as many other new voters to their rolls and, in some states, more. In Florida, the Republicans outregistered the Democrats...
...India from blitzed and threatened London, Indira announced in 1941 that they wanted to get married. Nehru was dismayed; he needed Indira to run his household. Feroze had no money, no job. "Nobody wanted that marriage, nobody," Indira said later, but she was adamant. Nehru himself wove a pink cotton sari for her to wear as her wedding dress. In 1944, Rajiv was born, and two years after that, Sanjay...
...getting their hair cut short. "One minute I was wearing Betsey Johnson sex clothes, the next I only had eyes for a nice Burberry," wrote Style Columnist Cynthia Heimel in Manhattan's Village Voice this month. "And gray flannel pleated trousers. Harris-tweed jackets. Simple shirtwaists in unsullied cotton . . . You know what this means, don't you? It means that people are going to be voting for Ronald Reagan again...