Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What needs to be said is that if the United States gives up all hope in the Middle East and Africa and resigns itself to pulling back into its tent with its materiel and its planes, if it gives up its bases over which so many people complain, if it abandons the whole world, including Great Britain and France, not 24 hours will pass before the Russian armies will have invaded Western Europe, which has fun playing like a spoiled child...
Valavanis, who was vacationing in Greece at the time of his death, was found shot in his tent near Mt. Olympus. It was reported that Valavanis was killed by an officer who had deserted from the Greek army...
Battle Hymn. High among the wild, beech-clad uplands, not far from the cave where a German bomb wounded Tito in 1943, the old campaigner of the Balkan Mountains and the younger conspirator of the Cairo barracks spent the night together in an army tent. Tito regaled his guest with the story of how his desperate 19,000, surrounded by a ring of 120,000 German and other troops, buried their hard-won field guns, slaughtered and ate their packhorses, and then, losing nearly half their number in the charge, fought through the supposedly impassable Sutjeska River canyon, broke through...
...Through a torrential thunderstorm Russia's Trud Club crew chopped off a snappy 37 strokes to the minute that gave them an immediate three-quarter-length lead. The Huskies started at 38, flagged to 31, lost by 1½ lengths. The rain-soaked Huskies glomped off to their tent without congratulating the victors. Then the Russians trounced the Leichkardt Rowing Club of Australia in the finals by 2½ lengths. Only U.S. consolation: Harvard 150-lb. lightweights whipped all comers in their class to win the Thames Challenge...
Pushbutton Camper. An experimental station wagon for campers, with a boat, tent, refrigerator, two-burner stove, sink with hot and cold running water, shower and curtain, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Power-operated equipment lifts the aluminum boat from its roof cradle and carries it overside for launching. Power gadgets also erect a tent with a full-size bed, move the kitchen onto the tailgate and thrust out a canopy to provide shade for the cook. Cost for experimental model: $40,000; if produced in quantity: below...