Word: cots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone broke trading cotton, so Lyndon arrived on campus with just $75 borrowed from a Blanco bank and began earning $15 a month as a janitor. Yet board and room cost $30 a month. The school's kindly president, Dr. C. E. Evans, let Lyndon put a cot in a small room above Evans' garage. In return, Lyndon became Evans' long-striding legman, running errands all over campus. By eating just two meals a day, Lyndon cut his food expenses to $15 a month; his laundry cost 50? a week. When Lyndon ran short, Evans found...
...Zumwalt," staged a 30-hour sit-in outside the office of the Board of Election Commissioners to emphasize his demands that police protection be provided at every polling place. A red-jacketed waiter served Zumwalt a steak dinner in the lobby, where the candidate spent the night on a cot...
Shuffled Beds. With all these people staying at the White House and across the street at Blair House (where Margaret Truman Daniel and her husband were putting up), a lot of beds and rooms needed reshuffling. Luci gave up her bedroom for a dressing-room cot to make space for several good Texas friends; Lynda Bird shared her yellow boudoir with a girl friend, and Governor John Connally got to sleep in Lincoln...
Never one to neglect business, Cap took the little girl to his store every day for a while, sometimes let her sleep at night on a cot in his second-floor storeroom near what she recalls as "a row of peculiar long boxes." Her father told her they were "dry goods," but Lady Bird later learned they were coffins...
...cake, and wore little-boy suits. When he became too obstreperous and was sold to the zoo at the age of 2½, he was so miserable with his clothes off, and so afraid of the other animals, that his foster mother came and slept in a cot by his side every night for three weeks...