Word: cots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroine sometimes tried to follow threads of reality through her blacked-out mind, but her memory was "swathed in wet gray chiffon that stuck to the . . . part she wanted most to examine." One, night, in a brief moment of sanity, she thought: "Here on [a] narrow cot, clothed in a numbered nightgown, [I lie] with women who [are] insane and [I am] one of them." After almost a year at Juniper Hill, Virginia was pronounced cured-but not before she and her fellow patients had been treated to shock therapy, hydrotherapy, psychoanalytical questionings, paraldehyde dosings and old-fashioned madhouse discipline...
Stertz had partitioned off with sleazy grey curtains. The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table. It cost $6 a week. Betty shared a dirty bathroom with the janitor and six other girls...
...personal representative of the King, he would serve as a tangible reminder of the British Crown. But he would do little more. For Canada, once sternly ruled from London (until 1878 Canadians could not even hang their own criminals), has all but crawled out of its uncomfortable colonial cot...
...exhibition entitled "Taste of the '70s." It includes a few good things (notably Frans Hals's Malle Babbe-Crazy Barbara, the Witch of Haarlem), coachloads of coyly draped marbles and candy-box oils. Most popular picture, rescued from the cellar for the occasion, was Pierre Cot's frothy Storm. Judging by reproduction sales in its heyday, Storm came close to being the Met's most popular picture of all time...
...Meanwhile, Father Perez went back to sleeping on the boards. Disgusted G.I.s are wondering why Jap prostitutes can get U.S. penicillin but a missionary can't get a U.S. cot...