Word: cots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly tolerant of the hip and hairy. City-funded sleeping projects have been set up in abandoned factories and warehouses, offering foam-rubber mat beds, showers and rock music for 80? a night. Copenhagen is another In place. City fathers have opened new youth hostels and "youth cities" of cot-filled army tents where boys and girls, not always segregated by sex, can do more together than brush their teeth. At Vendersgade 8 in the middle of town, an advisory center directs new arrivals to cheap beds. Free rock concerts, orchestra recitals and open-air theater performances are held...
...their clients find when they pack them off for Bermuda with their little travel bags saying Crimson Travel Service on both sides. But the three of us wondered what sort of happiness Crimson Travel had in mind when we were shown to our ten by ten room with its cot and narrow double bed. We wondered why we were paying almost $14 a day each. In Daytona Beach for eight dollars a day I sort of deserve a double bed, but how could it happen again? Will I never ask what I'm getting for my money before I hand...
...aren't the Americans fighting with us?" a twenty-year-old asked, sitting on the edge of the green American army cot...
...there was no need to project a crisis atmosphere; Washington's concern was real. Rogers decided to spend the night on a cot in his office. Meeting followed meeting as news of the Syrian assault came in. At one point Nixon told Kissinger: "Let's you and me war-game this&#quot; and they worked the plans over to see, as Nixon put it, "where the weak points might...