Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need to keep his dikes repaired against the attacks of the sea, and to fend off his many greedy enemies with unified effort, gave the Fleming a sense of community responsibility not yet shared by other Europeans. A hundred years before the signing of the Magna Carta in a tent on a British meadow, the burghers of Saint-Omer forced their feudal overlords to recognize the rights and privileges of individual citizens in that tiny Flemish town. Many other such charters were granted in Flanders during the Middle Ages and kept secure in strong boxes in town halls topped...
...July afternoon in 1944. the big top of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, pitched in an open field near Hartford, Conn., burst into flames. Within half an hour, the tent was gone and 169 people, two-thirds of them children, were dead or fatally injured. Last week, ten years to the day after the fire, Bridgeport's Superior Court Judge John T. Cullinan ordered the circus to pay $100,000 in legal fees to Julius B. Schatz. Hartford attorney who had served as legal counsel during a decade of receivership. When the fee is paid, the litigation that...
...young children (Monty, Randy and Michael). "I've done carpenter work, and I think I can get my house up." he said quietly. "Besides, many of the veterans who got farms up there last year came and offered to help. One fellow, a bachelor, is living in a tent, but you should see the crops he's got . . ." By spring, with his family in, Powers hopes to clear the rocks, uproot the brush and plow the land for his first crop, probably grain. For years to come, he hopes for very little-no telephone, no paved road...
...they had no place-neither in victorious Israel (which feared them as fifth columnists and turned over their lands and houses to Jewish immigrants) nor with their Arab hosts, already short of water for their own people. From Gaza to Syria, they became dwellers-on-the-dole, in 61 tent, mud-hut and cave colonies leaning against the flimsy Israel border...
...tonight," said Billy. "He is speaking in this arena tonight. It's difficult to talk through an interpreter, but I've been in enough of these meetings to know that He's here tonight." "Some 700 of the 28,000 Germans followed ushers into the tent for the converted. Outside, a guard advised the curious: "Entry only for those who have turned to Jesus Christ tonight." Soon after the meeting, Graham doubled up in pain; German physicians diagnosed the trouble as a "blocked kidney." But next day, Graham hopped off to Berlin for another big revival sermon...