Word: tent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon gagged on his wit as a wife. When her father took him into his brokerage office, watching the tape made him physically dizzy, and the securities he recommended for widows and orphans soon became known as "laughing stocks." When he grins into his stricken father's oxygen tent and says, "My God! You must have a strong heart to stand all this," it is a bravely joshing effort to keep mortality...
With winter coming on, Jordan is almost frantically concerned about the 200,000 West Bank refugees who are crowded into makeshift tent camps throughout the country. Most of the camps have been moved from the frigid desert plateau that surrounds Amman (where the temperature at night dips as low as 15°F) to the Jordan River Valley, which is 1,000 ft. below sea level and 30° warmer than the plateau. The valley itself is a treacherous campsite, prone to flash floods and violent sand storms; at one camp last month, a sandstorm shredded more than 600 tents...
...produce one atom of pride. You know the chemistry of pride, Mr. Sevareid? Pride. This is what the Negro needs, see. Viet Nam is going to do to the Negro what Israel has done for the Jews. And if I was a Negro leader, I would pitch a tent on the water edge and grab those Negro veterans as they come back. They are the seed of the future. They are the kind of leaders that the Negro needs...
...were tied for the lead, Arledge split the screen and showed them putting simultaneously on different holes-a touch of drama that neither the golfers nor the gallery could savor. Significantly, many golf writers no longer cover a tournament by tromping around the course; they sit in the press tent and watch...
...only light comes from an improvised candle with a rag as a wick. There are no connecting trenches; the leathernecks, some of them raw teenagers, must move at a run from bunker to bunker. Where once a crude French fortress stood, not a single building or even a tent breaks the bleak horizon. Often the only signs of life are a horde of bold rats and a few cats. "The men think they keep the rats down," grumbled one officer. "I suspect they share the garbage...