Word: cottons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...helmets, veils and heavy-gauge cotton coveralls, they trudged across the cracked earth of the San Joaquin Valley seeking the killers. Some of the searchers took to the air, combing an area of 400 sq. mi. by helicopter. The enemy sought by the scientific task force was as dangerous as it was tiny: ill-tempered, Africanized killer bees that may have landed in central California, jeopardizing crops and perhaps lives...
...make, that post-Puritan inclination has been expressed by splurges of color. From the jazz age onward, pop culture has gone polychrome in a big way: color, brilliant and various, has been almost obligatory in all things, from clothing to kitchen appliances to automobiles to furniture. What was not cotton-candy pink was smile-button yellow; if not sunset orange, then avocado green. Black, however, remained stricken from the palette, used only when demanded by function or material (tires, outdoor grills, cast-iron skillets) and in a few ritual contexts (limousines and hearses, tuxedoes, evening gowns and the costumes...
...Mydans learned the moral dimension of photography. No eye cast upon the hardships of those years could afterward decline into a tool for pretty picturemaking. A natural storyteller, he also learned with the FSA to look for his story in faces, in the unsettled gaze of transient cotton choppers and the cocksure grins of oilfield roustabouts...
...helmet is only the latest sartorial gaffe foisted on the fighting man. Last year the Army admitted that its cotton-nylon fatigues, introduced in 1980, tore easily and were unbearably hot in warm climates, and the Pentagon canceled a new combat boot that tended to fall apart. Said one Army expert: "We don't even like to talk about that one." Like the boots, the faulty helmets will probably be replaced. But there is a defect in the process of trying to correct the defect: the military is still trying to trace the units that are wearing the helmets. TENNESSEE...
Both elegant and environmentally friendly, the Q Collection's James chair, above, is made of wood from sustainable forests, low-impact dyed cotton upholstery and polyurethane-free stains. Pillow stuffing comes from free-range ducks...