Word: cots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school itself is coming under attack. Leftists complain, with some justification, that the E.N.A. has fostered the same sort of elitism that De Gaulle wanted to break down since many of the applicants tend to be the bright, ambitious offspring of the well-to-do. Thus Jean-Pierre Cot, a leading Socialist, sees the school's success not as a triumph of excellence but "of a certain political class which has come out of a little, lofty fraction of the bourgeoisie...
...hours, but many shells fell harmlessly into the leafy parks of the city. At 5:10 in the morning, a storm of fire began: red tracers flashed past the windows of the town hall, and a few mortar rounds landed in the compound. The soldier in the next cot jumped up: "Time to get up," he said. "It's their alarm clock. It happens every morning. After two hours they take a break and then give it another go later." Indeed the firing stopped by 7 o'clock. Walking along the streets of the city, I heard...
...dreamed of becoming an astronaut. A few months before he shipped out to Viet Nam, he married Deborah Gitenstein of Harrison, N.Y. Eight days before he was due to return to the U.S., he was shot down. "They kept him alone in a tiny cell without even a cot," his father told TIME last week. "He had to sleep on a hard stone floor. In the mornings they'd serve him some gruel or pumpkin soup." Nevertheless, he mustered enough energy to study French and, according to Air Force Lieut. Colonel Kenneth North, imprisoned in a cell adjoining Brudno...
...school in the Andersonstown section of Belfast. She chose the locker room not as a secret meeting place safe amidst the bombs and bullets of the Troubles, but because it happened to be where she and her children lived at the time. Theresa McGinnis slept on a canvas camping cot beside the entrance to the showers and her children slept on the benches between lockers, abandoning them for the floor after falling off a few times. She had been burned out of her house in a mixed Catholic-Protestant area by members of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association...
...Hospital of Chicago has hired a patient representative to deal with the problems of those using its clinic and emergency room. Few institutions, however, have gone as far as New York Hospital, a 1,000-bed facility associated with Cornell University Medical School. New York's Anne Alexis Coté, 26, is a member of the institution's administrative structure and has broad authority to investigate and when necessary do something about patient complaints. She is also singularly qualified for her work. A former nurse, she got a patient's-eye view of hospital operations when...