Word: tent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moments too late to prevent a vicious murder. Off to the side of the road, clutching his bloody head, stood Charles Boothroyd, 55, a Hartford, Conn., machinist. Near by, fatally wounded, lay Mrs. Jeanette Sullivan, 40. In a ditch was a crumpled tan Volkswagen with sleeping bags and a tent lashed to its top, its interior littered with toilet paper, pillows and sun caps. Missing was Mrs. Sullivan's 14-year-old daughter Denise. Boothroyd and the Sullivans had been sightseeing at Dead Horse Point, a towering promontory that commands a magnificent view of the Colorado River canyon...
...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...
...Crimson Key tours of the University leave each weekday from the tent by Massachusetts Hall at 10 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:15 p.m. Sundays...
...sofa. The girl dies immediately, but Clem lingers several days-time enough for the "trooping animals," with "a brutish anxiety not to let him go," to cluster in the hospital. Novelist Cassill parrots John Malcolm Brinnin's gruesome description of Dylan Thomas' similar death in an oxygen tent, concluding with the moment in which a fellow poet clasped "the cold, yellowing feet" of the corpse "in a gesture either of pleading or of farewell...
...Stuart Barton Babbage, Anglican Dean of 70-year-old St. Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, has his own formula for filling the tent. He plastered the crypt of the cathedral with gaudy record jackets, set candles in wine bottles on checkered tableclothes, and ran an ad in the newspapers: ANY CRAZY CAT IS WELCOME TO CREEP DOWN TO OUR CRYPT FOR COFFEE AND CRUMPETS. Instead of the 100-odd he expected the first Sunday night, more than 500 youngsters crushed in at 15? a head. Dean Babbage was happily laying plans last week for an espresso machine...