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Word: cottons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store has an inventory of nearly 10,000 items, sporting everything from Levi's Dockers for less than $30 to 28 different colors of all-cotton turtle-necks at $8.99 a piece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army-Navy Shop Camps Out | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

...cars picks up speed, and the cab's chimney spouts black smoke that swirls around the head of Steve Harris, who is kneeling on the house's gray-green roof and raising low-hanging telephone wires. The town is left behind, and the landscape shifts to fields of cotton and soybean. As he approaches the Ross R. Barnett Reservoir, Malone pulls a lever on the floor, cranking a cable that raises the house an extra foot so it just barely clears the side railings. "I've been doing this for 20 years, so I know what will go and where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canton, Mississippi A New Kind of Moving Day | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Scientists roaming through mountains southeast of San Francisco pinpointed the epicenter of Tuesday's 5:04 p.m. killer quake in the northeast corner of the Nisene Marks State Park, near the top of Aptos Creek, said Joseph Cotton with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rescue Continues; Bush Visits Quake Site | 10/21/1989 | See Source »

...everything -- are unnecessary in Wu's village. In tone and in fact, he controls almost every aspect of village life -- and the villagers have prospered thanks to his wisdom. When income from the local ice-cream factory fell short of projections, Wu converted the plant to a successful cotton-fabric operation in six months. When this summer's drought threatened to devastate the village's wheat and vegetable crops, Wu proposed that water from the Yellow River -- unused previously because it was so muddy -- be tapped immediately. Within 36 hours, 4,000 Chinese, including Wu, were digging a new irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...What is a controlled expression of opinion that does not threaten the party's authority? Thousands believed their criticism within bounds when Mao urged freethinking in the mid-1950s campaign known as "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom." Then Deng, whom Mao had / once described as "a needle wrapped in cotton," orchestrated a crackdown that sent many to prison for merely following the Great Helmsman's invitation to criticize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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