Word: tent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ranas. Their century-long rule was overthrown in 1951; King Mahendra. who succeeded his father five years ago, has tried hard to learn about his own country and the outside world. He walks the hills of Nepal each summer with a retinue of 2,000, camping in an ornate tent and blessing the throngs that worship him as the reborn Hindu god Vishnu. Eager for economic and social progress, he has traveled through neighboring India and the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. has granted Nepal $12.5 million in aid. The U.S. has given $30 million in technical assistance; Communist China, Nepal...
Suddenly from deep underneath the jagged Zagros mountain range came a 50-second, stomach-wrenching tremor. A toppling wall buried 70 girl students, killing 58. The dome of the bazaar collapsed like a circus tent after roustabouts removed the center poles. For a moment the stunned city was deathly still. Then the moans of the dying mingled with the wails of the survivors, who clawed with bare hands at the rubble, frantically searching for missing parents or children...
With reference to the "bold roofs" of St. Paul's and St. Andrew's, may I suggest that they evoke nothing so much as the graceful lines of a revival tent. It would appear that church architecture has regressed through neo-store-front to neo-camp-meeting...
...cone, the little girl understood that her father had no money left for treats, and she stifled her disappointment. "I just waited and hoped." The future Second Lady was born on March 16, 1912, in the mining town of Ely, Nev., and her birthplace may well have been a tent. (No one is certain, but Ely was a rowdy tent town at the time, and at best the towheaded baby came into the world in a miner's shack.) William Ryan was a footloose Irishman who had met and married Kate Halberstadt Bender, a young widow with two children...
When Sammy Davis swings into She'd Live in a Tent, Joey worriedly pretends to detect an Arab influence, announces: "Jewish people don't live in tents. We don't even smoke Camels." When Senator Jack Kennedy caught the show last week, Joey told him: "If you get in, Frank has to be Ambassador to Italy and Sammy to Israel. I don't want too much for myself-just don't let me get drafted again." Turning to the medical profession, he muses: "My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn...