Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer fields in Isfahan province. In their ankle-length gowns and brimless felt hats, they nimbly crossed rock-strewn slopes, driving herds before them. At Do Polan summit the brazen, electronic voice of the 20th century met the ancient, changeless East. Four loudspeakers placed around a neat white tent blared at the tribesmen: "Stop...
...women and children, 40 in all, reined in. They checked the six asses carrying all their household goods. Puzzled, their chief approached the head of the six-man government team from Isfahan. "Who are you? What is all this about?" he asked. Beside his white tent, the government man explained: Isfahan province is annually plagued by smallpox; the government* was determined to halt its spread and annual flare-ups caused by unvaccinated nomads like the Bakhtiari. The tribesman was amazed that the great, remote world of big government could be interested in his health. At first he hesitated...
...rich economy has surged irrepressibly ahead since World War II, the boom might have bypassed Bay Street if President Trebilcock had never ventured, via the World, into a financial career. After working up to business editor, he quit to study mining law, later hung his shingle over a tent at Red Lake camp in Ontario's 1925 gold rush. On his return to Toronto, Trebilcock was appointed counsel to the old Standard Stock and Mining Exchange, Canada's key mining market; in 1934 he worked out a merger with its rival, the 104-year-old Toronto Stock Exchange...
Under the big tent in Burbank, Calif, an audience of 1,200 waited impatiently for the circus to start. Finally the ringmaster made an announcement. Clyde Beatty's Circus, the No. 2 big topper in the U.S. (after Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey), had come to the end of the tanbark trail. It was closing. As the audience filed out, roustabouts dismantled the show for the last time...
...President threw wide-open the flaps of the G.O.P. tent. "No party," he said, "has a monopoly on brains or idealism or statesmanship. We-Republicans and Democrats alike-are motivated by the same loyalty to the flag, by the same devotion to freedom and human dignity, by the same high purposes for the nation's security and its people's welfare...