Word: cot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge temporary shed of bamboo and matting at torrid Tripuri drove an ambulance one day last week. A patient was carried into the shed and put on a cot between two big ice tanks. Lying there, sipping cooling drinks and medicines, occasionally bidding two young nieces fan his brow, the patient tried to forget a temperature of over 100 as he presided over the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress...
...high noon one day last week the skinny, 80-pound, 69-year-old Mahatma sat down before a crowd of sympathetic spectators and ate a meal of brown bread, cooked vegetables, oranges and a cup of hot goat's milk. Then he retired to a rustic cot in a room as bare as a Sing Sing cell and began his sixth fast until victory or death...
Most fiery speaker was former Air Minister Pierre Cot, renowned for baiting Adolf Hitler, who contended that the Mediterranean would no longer be free if the Italians were allowed to hold to the Balearic Islands, hinted that French deputies had been influenced by Nazi anti-Bolshevist propaganda, wound up by describing Germany's internal weakness. Said M. Cot: "The Hitler regime's only hope lies in bluff or, at worst, in a short war. Thanks to the excesses of Nazi rule France can now count on ten American workers behind every French soldier...
Stillman is known to be a poorly planned infirmary. There is not one door in the entire building wide enough to permit the passage of a bed through it; furthermore the elevator is too small to accommodate even a cot. This simply means that the really sick patients are trapped in their beds in times of emergencies, and everyone is at all times generally inconvenienced. There is a crying need for more modern equipment. Although a large sum of money was spent last summer in various improvements, this appears to be only a stop-gap measure, and Stillman's facilities...
...League of Nations with Soviet Russia, "which maintains its rule by shootings and tortures." Only in Germany and Italy, he cried, were the people 99% behind their governments. He branded Czechoslovakia as a pseudo-democracy forcibly created by the Treaty of Versailles, and accused former French Air Minister Pierre Cot of having once said: "The task of Czechoslovakia in a future war will be to bomb the key industries of Germany...