Word: cots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" The injured in Lawrence, Kans., smiled bravely at their injuries. The young actress who was supposed to be suffering from radiation sickness smiled bravely at the student who comforted her, and he smiled bravely back. On a cot in Cambodia lay a young man whose arm had just been amputated, and next to him lay his infant daughter whose arm had also been amputated. Neither of them smiled. They both looked numb. The stump of the man's arm kept twitching uncontrollably...
...faculty, alumni, and townies, novels that start off at Harvard and never return, and novels that check into Harvard and never leave. And virtually every one of them--as if to observe an unwritten rule of the genre--pauses for at least one bounce on a Buildings and Grounds cot before reaching its conclusion Surely no other segment of the population (with one possible exception) is as sharnelessly obsessed with the sex life of Harvard students as the creators of Harvard fiction...
...weather last week to apply for 200 jobs at an auto-frame factory. The growing number of previously middle-class families who now need public assistance has prompted strapped Milwaukee County to consider programs to discourage people from going on welfare. One proposal, known as "two hots and a cot," would have provided welfare recipients with a place to sleep and two meals a day instead of cash grants. More than 80 food pantries where the needy can get emergency food have sprung up throughout the city. Says Barbara Notestein of Milwaukee's hunger task force...
...Force Cot. Robert O'Brien, a Pentagon spokesman, said U.S. observers on the island of Diego Garcia reported seeing a "40-second burn" in the sky at 5:15 EST, six minutes before the satellite's main hulk rammed fully into the dense atmosphere...
...doctors stood by. With the medical paraphernalia-intravenous tubes, a cot on wheels and a curtain for privacy-the well-lighted cubicle might have been a hospital room. But Charlie Brooks Jr., a good-looking Texan strapped to the cot, was perfectly healthy. Then, just after midnight last Tuesday, the curtain was drawn back so that 18 unsmiling visitors, three of them Brooks' guests, could watch him die from eight feet away...