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Word: cots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office. They carried him back to the marshal's office, where they asked him to sign a form that would enable them to release him temporarily. Again McCrackin refused to cooperate, and the arm-weary officials toted him into a detention cell, where he stretched out on a cot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God & Taxes | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...Lantana, Murphy had told the plane attendant that he was carrying a sick man; the attendant saw one passenger in dark clothes, and on a cot or boards, "what looked like a person covered completely with a blanket or canvas." When Murphy landed back at Tamiami, he was apparently alone. Estimated round-trip air time for that type of plane from Florida to Monte Cristi Airport on the north coast of the Dominican Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Whitewash for Trujillo | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Only fifteen men live in the Monastery at the present time. Each inhabits a monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Monastery Hides Near MTA | 10/25/1957 | See Source »

...miller's beautiful wife (Sophia Loren). The miller's problem is that the governor of the province (Vittorio De Sica) is less than scrupulous about how he uses his authority. And so one night the miller (Marcello Mastroianni) finds himself sitting helplessly on a prison cot while, back at the mill, the governor is occupying the miller's bed. But back at the gubernatorial palace, the governor's wife (Yvonne Sanson) is all alone in the gubernatorial bed. The situation clearly demands robustious action. As always, there is room at the top for an enterprising young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 10, 1957 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Iran (pop. 21,146,000). Like Turkey, a Moslem-but not an Arab-state. Three years ago the country was falling into anarchy after Britain's failure to negotiate a fair Anglo-Iranian oil deal. A weepy Mossadegh (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) tried to rule from a hospital cot, and Iran was in danger of a Communist coup. That danger is safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MIDDLE EAST LOYALTIES | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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