Word: cottons
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...JUDO Marie-Helene Chisholm, Varennes, Que. Amy Cotton, Judique, N.S. Nicolas Gill, Montreal Carolyne Lepage, Boucherville, Que. Keith Morgan, Calgary Catherine Roberge, Montreal...
...until the sculptures came, the biggest thing on the horizon in the past hundred years was Cyclone Bobby, in 1995. The deluge it brought transformed Lake Ballard into a magical breeding ground for 10,000 banded stilts. "It was like a thousand cotton-wool balls out there," Finlayson recalls. Then the birds left...
...need that courage. At Danbury, Stewart will have none of the creature comforts that she touts to her fans and customers. She will probably be strip-searched on arrival. There will be no Egyptian-cotton sheets for the bed in her cell and no color-coordinated accessories. Inmates are allowed nothing more than wedding bands, religious medals and prescription eyeglasses, and they are not permitted to decorate the concrete walls...
...torture, not only for my body but also for my head. They would not do this to their women, sisters and daughters." When the men had finished with the woman, they left her bloodied and naked. Her sister found her half dead and gave her a simple cotton dress to wear. It is the only thing she owns...
...Most of the founders subscribed to the concept of Providence, but they interpreted it in different ways. Jefferson believed in a rather nebulous sense of "general Providence," the principle that the Creator has a benevolent interest in mankind. Others, most notably those who followed in the Puritan footsteps of Cotton Mather, had faith in a more specific doctrine, sometimes called "special Providence," which held that God has a direct involvement in human lives and intervenes based on personal prayer...