Word: cot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked forward to reading with some interest your profile on J. D. Salinger, who along with Wilfredo Cot was my roommate for a time at Valley Forge Military Academy...
...rouse him in his cell on the morning of the verdict had been unable to awaken him. A squad of physicians was summoned, Menderes' stomach was pumped and the contents flown to Istanbul by helicopter for analysis. Newsmen were invited to view Menderes-lying on a small iron cot in blue pajamas with a feeding tube up his nose-to scotch any speculation about mistreatment. Istanbul's medical report indicated an overdose of sleeping pills. Menderes, who had complained of insomnia, had been given pills by prison doctors, had probably hoarded a near-lethal cache in the lining...
...string cot in the courtyard of the Golden Temple of Amritsar lay Master Tara Singh, 76, political leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs. Masterji, as he is called by his followers in the Punjab, was entering the second month of a fast he had sworn to keep unto death, or until the Indian government grants his demand for a Punjabi Suba-a separate, Sikh-dominated state. Few fasts since the days of Mahatma Gandhi's Empire-baiting hunger strikes had caused such a stir in India...
...floors and the basement have been designated the shelter area. After a warning of a possible nuclear attack over an interoffice alert system, all Hancock personnel and non-company tenants in the building would be directed to core shelters, which have already been tested by radiation experts. A zoo-cot hospital section and operating room have been marked off, and medical supplies are stockpiled close by (16 doctors and eight nurses are always available). Two existing company restaurants carry a daily food supply; to supplement that, Hancock has stockpiled 400 cases of Multi-Purpose Food (MPF), one can of which...
...Cot in the Corner. Epi-Hab began in 1949, when Dr. Risch, a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, joined the staff of the Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital. He set up a machine shop on the grounds, manned it with ten epileptics. In one corner Risch placed a cot. When a worker suffered a seizure, he was helped to the cot and cared for. When the seizure passed, he was encouraged to march right back to his machine. In 1956, with a small grant from the U.S. Government, Risch opened his first Epi-Hab plant in downtown...