Word: cottons
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...sake of recovery as "that blah-blah." All through the sweltering summer of 1933, bands of lobbyists and executives wandered in and out of Washington offices, trying to figure out which code covered them and what it was supposed to say. Johnson managed to get the entire cotton textile industry organized in June. But Henry Ford, who accounted for 21% of all auto sales, refused to have anything to do with such Government interference, and Johnson had no power to coerce anyone except by threatening "a punch in the nose." What Johnson did have was an instinctive genius for what...
Designers, in fact, now put suede and leather in the same category as silk, cotton, linen and wool, calling it a "fabric" and using it flexibly. (Suede, the roughened flesh side of leather, was first used in 1884 in Sweden for gloves. The French called them gants de Suède-gloves of Sweden.) Moreover, since the new ultrathin suedes and leathers "breathe" more easily, they are as comfortable on a summer evening as in winter. Calvin Klein, the leading evangelist of leather in the U.S., has increased the use of suede and leather for the past five years...
...Italy's Mario Valentino print, stripe and weave leather to resurrect a rich Renaissance look. Bill Blass also uses a weave effect on some blouses, and Ralph Lauren has put ruffles on suede in delicate peasant blouses. Says he: "Feathery-light blouses that once were made of cotton can now be done in suede. And it can mix with anything-silk, a sweater, tweeds, linen or cotton." The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine red, hot and soft pink, vivid green, fuchsia, indigo blue, yellow, apricot, jade, turquoise...
There were six registered miracles in Montana's time at Notre Dame, more than enough to elevate anyone to the rank of blessed. In his final college game, in arctic conditions at the Cotton Bowl, the Irish lagged behind Houston 34-12, almost as if to test the limit of his magic. Montana got to work, and with four seconds left, a pass play to Kris Haines would have scored the winning touchdown, except Haines slipped. Kris remembers: "We went back into the huddle with two seconds to go, and Joe said, 'Don't worry...
Montana, a hero for Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl just three years ago, completed 14 of 22 passes for 156 yards...