Word: cots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before Leon J. Kamin's trial for contempt of Congress, the Kamin Legal Aid Fund is still $1,800 short of meeting "the most modest estimates" of the cot of fighting his case...
Heads Underfoot. Sculptor Giacometti fits comfortably into this cramped clutter. Lying among the spare furnishings-a black potbellied stove, rumpled cot and banged-up chair-are strange sculptured objects: 6-ft.-tall female caryatid forms whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking heads as tiny as a thumbnail, a slinking alley cat with body no thicker around than the thumb. None of them is finished, Giacometti truculently insists. But in the eyes of art critics, these curious forms are the best sculpture being done in France today...
...appears at his office at 7 every morning, leaves after 7 at night. But two days before a spectacular goes on the air, he turns, up at NBC's vast Brooklyn studio at 8 a.m. for a 40-hour siege. He is equipped with a cot and icebox and, for emergencies, aspirin, Empirin, Desoxyn, phenobarbital and Dexedrine...
Assembly on the Spot. All day and all night the grappling went on. Mendès took a nap on the cot in his office, then, tugging at his rumpled suit, returned to the floor to fight his way out of an old beartrap of French politics-the "war of resolutions." By attaching crippling resolutions to a government motion, the Assembly often evades a decision or makes futile a government proposition. Mendès found himself fighting more than a dozen of them. As a favor to the Europeans, he agreed to one that expressed a "desire to continue with...
Trial Run. In Vienna, Gustav Haubert, 40, asked the judge to let him spend his three-month sentence on an especially hard cot, added: "Also reduce my meals to the barest minimum. I have decided to go into a monastery after I leave jail, and I want to get in training...