Word: cot
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According to the British newspapers, all these critical steps in the Brown case ? removal of the eggs, fertilization in the laboratory and implantation ? took place in a small turn-of-the-century institution called Dr. Kershaw's Cot age Hospital, amid green fields about a mile from the hospital where Mrs. Brown awaits the birth. Steptoe has done much of his fertilization work there, using four rooms, plus a small adjoin theater, that are all protected by locks, sliding doors and a red warning light...
Immediately after entering the garage, the runners walked into the medical area. Some took blankets and walked out to get refreshments and their baggage. But many others sprawled across a cot, succumbing to the pain and violent shivers of exhaustion...
Djiboutians consoled themselves, as always, by chewing on kat (pronounced, roughly, cot), a mild narcotic leaf imported by air-because it loses its kick 72 hours after picking-from Ethiopia at the staggering rate of seven tons a day. A cheekful of kat, they say, provides something of a high, makes them care less about heat and hunger, gives a general feeling of happiness, and enhances sexual potency. A local post office clerk, assessing the future with what appears to be typical lack of concern, shifts his chaw to the other cheek and says. "If things go bad, we will...
...course, it is conceivable that the medical establishment may be wrong about Laetrile. History is filled with examples of medical shortsightedness. In the early 1 8th century, the Rev. Cot ton Mather, of all people, was accused by Boston doctors of in terfering with the "all-wise providence of God almighty" by rec ommending inoculation against smallpox. Louis Pasteur evoked the fury of medical savants with his germ theory of disease...
Monastic Life. On the other hand, Hesburgh for all his years at Notre Dame has continued to sleep on the same iron cot in his tiny room at nearby Corby Hall. The shelves of his outer office are stacked with cans of orange juice and Campbell soup, a sharp reminder of his monastic life. His rickety hot plate sits on the counter. It is the mark of an asceticism that Ted Hesburgh seems to impose on himself-almost as though he felt a need to reassure himself that he still is a priest. "After all these years, 1 haven...