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Word: conestogas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eave Two-Man and Eave Three-Man. Rounded on top like Conestoga wagons, these tents take two minutes to erect and have withstood winds up to 80 m.p.h. No center pole or ropes are needed, and the tent breathes through a porous cloth roof protected by a waterproof "fly" that overhangs it like an eave. The three-person version weighs 6 lbs. and costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Moss the Tentmaker | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...Girl growling and Stefan sad. Merilee a proper wife holding her tongue. Thinking, " If there's no money, then we'll have no fig trees. Our ancestors crossed the Donner and left Tulsa in their Conestoga wagons to escape just such old-fashioned logical connectors." And if Sam Bollo thought he was the hot shit who could deny her what she had always wanted just through some old cranky Philadelphia logic, then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

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