Word: cots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never Alone. In the intensive-care unit after the operation, Kennedy was never left alone with the hospital staff. Ethel rested on a cot beside him, held his unfeeling hand, whispered into his now-deaf ear. His sisters, Jean Smith and Pat Lawford, hovered near by. Ted Kennedy, his shirttail flapping, strode back and forth, inspecting medical charts and asking what they meant. Outside on Lucas Street, beneath the fifth-floor window, hundreds of Angelenos gathered for the vigil; crowds were to be with Bobby Kennedy the rest of the week. A local printer rushed out 5,000 orange...
...undercover Nixonite grated: "We ought to get this going for Nixon now." Sipping coffee, munching doughnuts, shaking Romney's hand, the women heard him inveigh against godlessness, immorality, sloth, the decline of the family, even the English, whom he characterized as interested only in "two hots and a cot," or two square meals and a place to sleep. When it came to Viet Nam, however, so vague were his exhortations for the most part that even hard-liners-of whom New Hampshire has a plenitude-often wagged their heads in accord with what they thought he said. When Romney...
...hard to say what motivated White to try to remove McNamera so early in the term--perhaps it was that same sense of the dramatic that allowed him to be photographed, during last week's cold weather, sitting by a cot in his City Hall office prepared to stay the night answering phone calls from freezing citizens. Had he waited until he had a surer grasp on his office. White probably could have devised a plan to remove McNamera. It's doubtful that he can do it now: McNamera's friends are on guard. Indeed one White insider says...
Three separate private and official investigations turned up the facts that prompted the grand jury action. So far at least three possible murders have been uncovered. One convict was tied to his cot and burned to death behind the locked gate of his cell; another man was found hanged by his belt after he begged to be moved from his cell for fear of being killed; a third inmate was allegedly beaten to death. The stories of two former inmates, reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, suggested that murder was merely the end result of the constant brutality and venality...
Picking Furniture. Jailed as an enemy of the Third Reich, in 1943, Bonhoeffer was allowed to receive visits by Maria, who took him books, laundry and food. She once arrived lugging a huge Christmas tree, causing considerable laughter among the guards. Bonhoeffer "remarked that maybe if he moved his cot out of his cell and stood up for the Christmas season he could accommodate the tree comfortably." Although suspected of treason, Bonhoeffer retained the hope that he would eventually be freed, encouraged Maria to plan ahead for their marriage. "It helped him to envision a specific piece of furniture...