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Word: cots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think I'm fighting?" says Ali, looking up from a dressing-room cot after working out in the Bahamas for his own comeback this week against Trevor Berbick. (If it comes off, that is; even Ali has trouble believing it.) For the spotlight, comes the reply. He is fighting again because he needs to be a star, needs to shine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fight One More Round | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...curls up on the cot, closes his eyes and, in that husky rasp of a voice, whispers, "The secret to my continuing the way I do is my consciousness of a continuing assault upon my own greatness and ability. Read that back to me." Twice it is read back to him. "There. That just came to me," he says. "Do I sound like I have brain damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fight One More Round | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...away from Gaddafi, Mitterrand supported the proposal for an inter-African force, invited Oueddei to Paris, supplied his army with some small arms and repeated an earlier offer to help rebuild the Chadian army in a neighboring country, probably Cameroon. In early October, the French Development Minister, Jean-Pierre Cot, demanded the withdrawal of the Libyans from Chad by the end of the year. Oueddei, bolstered by the French, openly criticized the Libyan presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: Exit Gaddafi, Enter Mitterrand | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...city's high unemployment. To make matters worse, his immigration papers authorize employment only until Jan. 15. Meanwhile, like most other Cuban refugees, he is ineligible for welfare. Trapped in this legal limbo and unwilling to burden his half sister any longer, Benitez is now sleeping on a cot in an unheated garage, living on earnings from odd jobs and handouts from friends. Says he: "It's starting to get cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Cuban Refugees Move On | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...Americans, as Toland puts it, finally got a chance to "show the world that [they] could fight as well as talk," and the counterattacks began. The overextended German army collapsed. In November the Kaiser resigned, and a scrappy little corporal, twice decorated for gallantry, flung himself on his hospital cot and wept. On the spot, Adolf Hitler swore he would devote his life to avenging his betrayed country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Memento Mori | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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