Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifty thousand Egyptians crowded under a vast, quilted tent in Cairo's Republic Square one evening last week to hear Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaim his long-promised constitution. This was the moment when Egypt was to pass from military dictatorship to "republican and democratic government." To mark the switch, Nasser and his eight-man junta had resigned their army commissions. They took their places on the platform wearing civilian clothes. "The true revolution begins today," orated Nasser. "The whole people will constitute a supreme council for the revolution." "Ascha Gamal!" (Long live Gamal), chorused the crowd...
...Black-Tent Kingdom. Winston Churchill, Britain's Colonial Secretary after World War I, created Jordan. He whacked an elbow-shaped hunk off the defunct Ottoman Empire and handed it to the Hashemite Emir Abdullah, "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said, for the Emir's fighting services to Britain in the desert campaigns against the Turks. Abdullah ruled his arid waste spaces as a Bedouin black-tent state, with three courtiers alternating as Premier at the royal pleasure, and a British proconsul in the Lawrence-of-Arabia tradition commanding the British-equipped Arab Legion. Lieut. General...
Kikuyu are no longer living in huts scattered through the reserves, and thus vulnerable to Mau Mau threats, but have been brought together into 850 villages, all policed and protected at night. On the fairway of No. 3 hole at Nyeri Golf Club, the square black tent which housed the gallows from which scores of Mau Mau were hanged has been taken away, and at Thomson's Falls, scene of several massacres, a horticultural show was recently held. Life, it seemed, was back to normal. The Multiple Vote. But the shadow of the Mau Mau panga has left Kenya...
...Mildred J. Corballis, who for years had made a specialty out of serving dessert in the Union, died Sunday night of a heart attack in the Cambridge City Hospital. A Union employee since 1947, Mrs. Corballis had been in an oxygen tent for the preceding week, undergoing treatment for pneumonia...
PALACE. ADMISSION FREE) at which the policies of his one-party government are submitted for general approbation. Last week in the capital of Pnompenh, 8,000 "congressmen"-shopkeepers, farmers, tricycle drivers, artisans and housewives-assembled in a huge scarlet tent, set up among the peach-pink and ochre-tinted pagodas, to hear their princely Premier outline his new foreign policy...