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You can use a long cotton-tipped instrument to try to push the surrounding attachments away.
She leaves home, comfortable in her new sophistication as the city-born wife of this Arkansas cotton-picker.
It felt as if the country had been wrapped up in the cotton-wool of establishment etiquette.
It grew partly out of a 1905 scandal in which traders obtained confidential cotton-crop estimates.
The pollination work lasts for 70 to 100 days and is followed by cotton-picking staggered over several months.
Bruwer says South Africa, and other cotton-producing nations who subscribe to free market principles, support the Brazilian position.
And they're awaiting the arrival of two Cotton-Top Tamarin monkeys, who, among other activities, will be trained to Skype.
Once the leading cotton-growing county in the United States, it has now become one of the biggest steel-producing counties.
All that began to crumble on October 2nd 1944, the day of the first public demonstration of mechanical cotton-picking in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
They settled on a cotton-modal blend (modal is a form of rayon) that offered a soft feel, attractive drape and absorbed color well.
The extraordinary lobby of the palace is centered on a marble fountain supported by cherubs, while the sky-blue walls are frescoed with cotton-ball clouds, birds, garlands and idealized rural scenes.
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Children need to be shielded from inaccuracies emblazoned on casual attire, because little kids always believe what adults tell them, even if the information is communicated via a cotton-polyester mix.
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The story of the former Soviet Union's disastrous policy of cotton-growing in Uzbekistan, of the wind-blown salt that its depletion of the Aral has left, and of the pollution remaining, makes for very depressing reading.
She allows her hair to be teased into a lofty blond arc, a sort of cotton-candy diadem, and her speech, with training, gets heavier and slower, the emphasis landing on selected, morally significant syllables like a hammer hitting an anvil.
The capital Willemstad, settled in 1634, is the financial and commercial centre of life on the island, as well as a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks to its well-preserved, cotton-candy-coloured Dutch Colonial architecture and buildings like the Mikve Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in use in the Western Hemisphere.
Last year, when cotton prices hit an all-time high due to a global supply crunch, manufacturers first raised prices, then used less cotton and more blended fabrics such as poly-cotton.
Robertson's black-lump adventure began in 1969 after he graduated from the University of Texas, where the tall linebacker was an All-American football player and captain of the Cotton Bowl-winning 1968 team.
Robertson's black-lump adventure began in 1969 after he graduated from the University of Texas, where the 6-foot-1-inch linebacker was an All-American football player and captain of the Cotton Bowl-winning 1968 team.
Nonetheless, trade at its Primark stores was more intense than expected, which - along with lower than expected manufacturing costs due to a drop in cotton prices - helped the chain achieve better operating profit margins than a year ago.
If you exchange the words Egyptian-cotton industry with European Aerospace-lobbying industry in Heller's passage above, you would have a good summation of how EADS has been trying to justify its activities and market itself to the American public.
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Researchers at the University of South Carolina are working on developing a cotton t-shirt that could charge mobile gadgets.
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Chiang Mai lets down its hippie hair at this market with lots of ethnic chic accessories, undyed cotton T-shirts and "save the planet" canvas tote bags.
"It's a lot of talk, a lot of rhetoric but it's like cotton candy -- it melts on contact but you can't live on it, " he said.
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Plank noticed that, after a practice or a game, the cotton T-shirt that he and the other players wore under their pads would be heavy, soaked with sweat.
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She waited while I carried it to her room, and watched as I took her sheets, a pillowcase, a heavy blanket, and a thin cotton waffle-weave spread from the linen closet.
The clear front-runners are the Cotton, Chick-fil-A and Fiesta.
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