Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tension in Cyprus took a new turn last weekwhen a grimy little two-stack transport flying the French tricolor putinto Limassol harbor. Moody Cypriots stared with astonishment as 1,400 blue-bereted paratroopers and 1,300 airmen moved without armed protection towards the tent city hastily built for them by theBritish near World War II Tymbou air base. If that did not give a clue to what was happening, the dispatch of another ship did. It was a 3,226-ton tanker named Bacchus, and it gurgled toward Cyprus with a full cargo of wine. The French had arrived...
...growing Indian community, now against softness in treatment of the blacks, now against the excessive pomp of the colonial governor himself. Instead of wasting money on a swank new government house, young Grogan told testy old Governor Sir Edward Grigg, he ought to be made "to live in a tent." The governor soon thereafter curtailed his original ambitious building plans...
...show business ended in Pittsburgh, and John Ringling North, hereditary boss of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, pronounced an epitaph: "The tented circus as it now exists is a thing of the past." Last of the surviving big-time big tops, Ringling struck its huge tent for the last time, packed up to limp back to winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla., though the season was but half over. The big show's ailments: television, labor troubles, miserable weather this year, and soaring costs. Starting next April, North added bravely, the circus will sally forth again and play...
...tours will leave from the red and white striped tent set up in front of Massachusetts Hall in the Yard. This tent will serve as headquarters for the Guide Service and will also function as a summer University information center...
...businessmen were trying to see where the U.S. is headed. Farm-machine sales were down to the point where J. I. Case Co. shut one of its plants. In the troubled U.S. auto industry there was more talk of production cuts. Holding his first annual meeting, in a big tent in Dearborn, Mich., Henry Ford II put production this year at "less than 6,000,000 units." Said Ford: "Production will remain a negative factor at least until the last quarter." Furthermore, he added, "it seems unlikely that the general economy will expand markedly during the remainder...