Word: cot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilhelmstrasse was worried. Ever since the anti-Red Hitler boojum began to frighten the Kremlin, France has been courting Russia, sending first Edouard Harriot (TIME, Sept. 11), then French Air Minister Pierre Cot to Moscow. Berlin last week dared antagonize Moscow no further. The Leipzig police department and the German Foreign Office hastened to send regrets...
...nearly to the Congo. Finally, north over the Sahara to the Mediterranean again, and home - 15,600 mi. in all. Volunteer officers & crew were called to begin training, at Istres. Like Balbo's men, they will be held strictly incommunicado until time to take off. Air Minister Pierre Cot, who only lately learned to fly, will not try to imitate Air Minister Balbo by leading the squadrons himself. General Joseph Vuillemin, chief of the air force in Morocco, will command. Weatherbound at Shoal Harbor on Trinity Bay, N. F. General Balbo announced last week that instead of following...
...from the cot on which he nearly fasted to death (TIME, May 22 et seq.) rose shriveled Mahatma Gandhi last week. With Mrs. Gandhi at his side he hobbled out of the palatial villa at Parnakuti, near Poona, loaned him for his fast by eccentric Lady Thackersey. Creeping into a motor car he was driven into Poona at a dusty 50 m.p.h. to face the executive committee of his All-India National Congress Party. The committee was restive, if not rebellious. Many of the Mahatma's followers feel that his fasts to impress Indians with the need of abolishing...
...elaborate hall of Lady Vittal das Thackersey's marble villa outside Poona squatted more than 100 persons last week-Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Christians-all gazing out on the terrace where on a cot lay what looked like a week's wash, a great bundle of white linen shrouding the living skeleton of Mahatma Gandhi. Month ago, already an owl-eyed lemur of a man. St. Gandhi began a fast in behalf of the Hindu Untouchables, without whose liberation he believes real self-government in India is impossible...
Just before noon, when the fast was to end, a boy Untouchable began slicing and squeezing oranges. Little Latmaja Naidu, daughter of India's foremost Poetess Sarojini Naidu, tiptoed to the cot. St. Gandhi was too weak to raise his head, but from the middle of the cocoon his eyes flashed behind their thick spectacles...