Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cept, and he seldom talked about it. But he could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys to do the laundry, and movies almost every...
Unhappy ROKs. Despite this bristling and ambiguous language, the U.N. Command was "very encouraged." Outside the tent, South Korean newsmen could not conceal their unhappiness at the U.N. concessions. Their argument: that the agreement is an open invitation to let the Reds cuff South Korea about at will, while the U.N. withholds aid of all kinds; the ROKs could suffer huge losses just on the say-so of the Reds that they had been attacked first, and the harm done before the neutral commission could decide the issue...
...this side of the Atlantic. The place: Stratford, a small (pop. 19,000) railroad town in the dairy country of southern Ontario, on the banks of Canada's River Avon. But the Shakespeare festival which opened there last week-on a neo-Elizabethan stage under a spreading carnival tent-is not straw-hat; it is distinctly top-hat. And the two plays, presented by a first-rate cast (stars: Alec Guinness. Irene Worth), are as surprising as the event itself. For the real hit is not the famous, battle-tested King Richard III, but the rarely produced...
Richard III, the alternating attraction, is considerably less successful. The play surges stirringly over the steps and platforms of an ingenious permanent set; troops of actors use every conceivable kind of entrance, save sliding down the tent poles. But the production traps Alec Guinness like Houdini in his water tank, and he manages only a few times to burst forth with some real acting. Guinness could never be really bad, and is always good company. But he is apt to be subtly ironic where Richard must be grandly hypocritical, mildly unpleasant where he should be heroically evil...
...final day, Hogan appeared on the first tee bundled up in two sweaters and feeling the touch of flu. "Better have an oxygen tent ready on the 18th; I'll need it," he warned an official. A Scots paper headlined: HOGAN FALTERS. Instead of faltering, Ben began gunning out 300-yd. drives in place of his usual, careful 250-yarders. Where his putts had been falling short, Ben changed style and stroked harder. His third-round 70 left him in a tie for the lead...