Word: cots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he finally blurts out the truth to the grieving mother, she treats it as a ruse to stop her harried search. By the time Author Steele has applied the last turn of the screw to Divine's conscience, the poor fellow is babbling insanely from a hospital cot...
Export-Import Bank. As the situation ran toward disaster, Grady lumbered persistently between the stiff-necked British and the sagging iron cot of Iran's Premier Mossadeq. "He loves me," said Grady. To all who would listen, he complained that Washington had let him down. The Harriman mission was the final affront which Harriman compounded by refusing to let him see cables from Washington on the ground that they were "too secret." ¶ Loy Henderson, 59, Ambassador to India since 1948, to replace Grady in Iran. One of State's ablest career diplomats, Henderson was the best...
There is no evidence in Iran that a "settlement" is any more likely this week than it was last week or last month. One significant change in the situation: Premier Mohammed Mossadeq-who has been running the show from his cot, summoning Western diplomats, cowing the Iranian Parliament with his National Front thugs, telling the Shah where he got off-has begun to slip. Fourteen deputies last week signed a manifesto protesting the Premier's policies, deriding the fiasco of oil nationalization. Sayid Zia Eddin Tabatabai, onetime Premier and wily old politician, set up an opposition, revived his National...
...describes the fightingest man of his day in action, the massive bowie knife flashing, his disemboweled foes falling all about him. No one, it seems, can stand up to peaceful Jim when his dander is up. It is a sad irony that he should be lying helpless on a cot when the Alamo is stormed by Santa Anna's men on March 6, 1836. Even then he sells his life pretty dearly. Bowie's four pistols account for four Mexicans. A fifth, "the boldest of them, lay with the knife buried in his heart...
...room on the second floor of Teheran's Majlis (Parliament) building was as bare as a hermit's cell. It was furnished with a sagging cot, a few dingy chairs, a foot locker, and a small table on which rested a half-used box of Kleenex, a bottle of ink, and a key ring with three keys. The only spot of color in the drab room was supplied by a bright blue enamel chamberpot under the cot...