Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strains of Star Dust, played by the Melachrino Strings, wafted from the eighth-floor tower room at Denver's Fitzsimons Army Hospital. An idle glassene oxygen tent was placed outside the door m the flower-banked corridor. Inside the room, the world's most important hospital patient rested comfortably and listened to the music. A week after his heart attack President Eisenhower was making steady progress toward recovery...
...President awoke several times during the night, was restricted to a diet of fruit juices, and remained under the oxygen tent. The tent, Press Secretary Hagerty explained, was normal procedure for cardiac patients...
...waiting wheelchair, and was taken immediately to the two-room presidential suite on the eighth floor of the hospital's tower. On the way up he politely inquired after the health of the elevator operator, Charles Adams. Ike went right to bed, and was placed under an oxygen tent. The green-and-cream-colored suite is reserved for very important patients and furnished in the style of a hotel room, with upholstered chairs, a carpet on the floor, a desk and several lamps...
Suffering from extreme shock when finally rescued, Moffatt never recovered and died within an hour. The others, all exhausted and practically numb, huddled for the night in the only two-man tent that was still usable. The five arrived at Baker Lake on Sept. 24, ten days after the fatal accident, from where a search plane flew them to Churchill, Manitoba...
...rage. To hide his inflamed eyelids and grotesque face, he wore an engulfing hood and broad-brimmed hat. When he could no longer walk, he was carried about on the broad back of his slave Januario. To shut out the world's curious, derisive stare, he rigged a tent around him as he worked. Once the governor of Minas Gerais dared stick his head inside the tent and O Aleijadinho (The Little Cripple, as his townsmen called him) seized his mallet and chisel and showered His Excellency with stone chips...