Word: cots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handful of Beads. Today the East Gate Market is coming to life again. Most shopkeepers have no shops, only boxes and crates or an old army cot on which to display their wares. Some lay their little collections on the ground, brushing away the dust which sifts off Bell Street. They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll. Some have rice, flour, corn, and cotton cloth. They get the food in devious ways. One said that he had his rice from a Department...
...dormitory of his Anglo-Catholic church school in the Tennessee hills, the day had begun with a soul-shaming failure. He had vowed to stay awake all night to share somehow Christ's agony, but before midnight he had fallen asleep. Now, as Father Whitman went from cot to cot waking the boys chosen for the next Good Friday watch, it was nearly 4 a.m., and Richard was suffused with the knowledge of his Lord's ordeal...
...bare living developing snapshots, married him two years later. She made most of her husband's business trips with him, camped in tents during his early days as a building contractor. After she became ill 18 months ago, Kaiser stuck close to their Oakland apartment, slept on a cot outside her room...
John H. Hart '52, settles down for the night in front of the Athletic Association ticket office. Hart set his cot up at 11:30 p.m. last night, so that has could be first in line for junior allotment Yale game tickets when the effect opens...
...heavy financial outlay from such of the 8,000,000 U.S. set owners who want CBS color programs to appear on their screens. In order to watch color shows even in black-and-white, TV fans will have to purchase a $35 "adapter," while complete conversion to color will cot at least another $75 for a "converter." And there is little sign that many adapters and converters will be on the market for a long time...