Word: cots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are no more evenings now of dressing to the ears and listening for hours on end to the stupendous heroics of Richard Wagner; no more evenings lying on his army cot at home as his Siemens record-changer riffles through the ponderous Germanisms of his other favorite, Anton Bruckner...
Mildred slept on a cot in the same room with her sister and brother-in-law. "Every other night, when his wife was asleep, he would come to my bed and try to get in beside me. . . . When he got in one side of the bed, I jumped out the other. He would run after me, trying to rape me." Attorney Norman Becker asked why she did not scream. "I didn't want to wake my sister." Attorney Robert Cantwell Jr. asked why she did not leave the Feiler household. "They needed somebody to take care of their daughter...
Even greenhorn traveling salesmen knew enough to keep away from Albany, Ga. last week. They knew its two hotels would be crammed to the cashier's cot, its storekeepers loath to talk about anything but dogs. For Albany (pronounced All-Benny), a thriving little city of 19,000, is the hub of some of the best quail-hunting grounds in the world. There last week was held a bird-dog trial as sacred to Albany as the Derby is to Louisville...
Leaving Fort Dix, N. J., where he commands the 113th Infantry, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, who manages the New York Times when he is not managing draftees, headed south for a "refresher" course for National Guard officers at Fort Benning, Ga. Easing himself exhausted onto his cot after a day's refreshment, the Colonel proclaimed: "I wouldn't have missed...
...August M. Cot announced he was trying to get a job with a U. S. university as a lecturer on international...