Word: pup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utensils, even hot and cold running water, showers, toilets and air conditioners (about $2,100). Farther down on the scale are specially designed tents that fit over the tail gates of station wagons, lean-to canvas that turns a car into a bedroom, tepees (the rangers' favorite), and pup tents for storage...
...four days and four nights of bivouac in a local state forest, where you will sleep under the stars, share your Army rations with our insect hosts, and observe our training day, which runs from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. But don't bring any party paraphernalia. A pup tent gets kind of crowded when a hi-fi set and a couple of deck chairs are installed...
Zippers & Fireplugs. Mijbil, the hero of this book, was about as ottery as an otter can get. Author Maxwell picked him up as a pup in the swamp country of Iraq -unaware at the time that in finding a pet he had also discovered a new subspecies (Lutirogale perspicillata maxwelli...
...three weeks in raw November weather he steered a canoe down the Brazos, alone except for an unruly Dachshund pup and chance riverbank acquaintances. He hunted and fished sparingly, thought a good deal, stopped often to poke about in the ruins of a settler's cabin or the barely traceable midden of an Indian camp. Graves's record of the journey is an eloquent elegy. While the author makes it clear that he finds one era fascinating and the other dull, he does not make the sentimentalist's mistake of saying "that Texans were nobler...
...Paper clothes. High-style paper clothes that can be thrown away after a few wearings are being developed by American Cyanamid, which is also experimenting with high-fashion paper hats. Paper pup tents and sleeping bags are now on sale...