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When neighbors visited Mrs. Sullivan (she was popular in the neighborhood, and generous with what little she had), Gerald was locked in his room, empty but for a dirty Army cot; he had been taught not to utter a sound. Last week Anna Sullivan forgot to lock the door; he escaped while she was telephoning...
...Gale still is measuring his extensive frame upon a Stillman Infirmary cot, and Bob Taggert will do the pulling from his number five slot. The rest of the first boat remains as planned, with Bill Curwen getting his first test as stroke in the big time...
...keep the date, Moravec prevailed upon his surgeon, Dr. Thomas B. Quigley, to allow him to leave his Stillman Infirmary cot, using an ambulance for the trip...
...Sacred Cow was over Ohio, the President was dozing on a cot in his stateroom, when the radio message came. Martha Truman had died. When he had read the message, the President said: "Well, now she won't have to suffer any more." Dry-eyed and silent, he turned to gaze for a long time at the checkerboard countryside below...
...past battles, and searching hints that "the spirit" was still in strife. The enemy always turned out to be something deeper than prejudice and more dangerous than moneygrubbing; it was whatever interfered with living fully, in the moment. He was in pain much of the time. Lying on the cot in his cavelike "office" just off the gallery, he used to say that now he himself was "in retreat. I just lie here, trying to understand...