Word: cots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such as irrigation and the astronomical cost of good land, promises to try to bring small business into the area if elected. Last week, when a listener asked for her views on organized labor, Millionairess Jackie set the Republican audience back on its heels. "I went down into the cot ton mills when I was eight," said she firmly. "I saw whole families there. I want to tell you people that the unions have done more for our nation than any other organized group...
...pacifying Algeria. But after Mendes-France pulled out in dissatisfaction over the lack of genuine reforms in Algeria, the big guns of the Right, which favor the tough elements of Mollet's Algerian policy, fell silent. The biggest thunder on the Left came from Stalin Peace Prizewinner Pierre Cot. "A war that France cannot wage and does not want," he cried. "The only thing to do is negotiate." But Mollet's attack made its own breaks. Just in time, the government announced that 290 eastern Algerian rebels had been killed and turbaned General Si Amrouche routed...
...Norma Jeane was careful, especially not to talk back. If she did, she got whaled with a razor strop and told that a homeless girl should be more grateful to folks who had put a roof above her head. One night, when the child went to sleep in her cot, she had a strangely exhilarating and frightening dream: "I dreamed that I was standing up in church without any clothes on, and all the people there were lying at my feet on the floor of the church, and I walked naked, with a sense of freedom, over their prostrate forms...
...woman named Ana Lower. Once she lived in a drought area with a family of seven people; they all bathed once a week in the same tub of water, and the "orphan girl" was always the last one in the tub. There was always the dry bread, the army cot by the water heater, the monthly visit from the county social worker who inspected the soles of her shoes and patted the top of her head and went away. And there were still the noises in her head and the nameless feelings of guilt...
...vary in age from 14 to 21; their terms are from one to three months. When a boy enters a center, he is stripped of personal possessions, gets a physical examination, and is assigned to a small (6 ft. by 10 ft.), freshly painted cubicle containing only a narrow cot and a washstand. From then on, his life is much like that of a military inductee. His day begins at 6:15 with 20 minutes of calisthenics, proceeds on a split-second schedule which keeps him constantly moving on the double. He is never left unsupervised. (At Kidlington there...