Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salvage from his pockets: a wallet, a watch, a rosary, bits of candy. Into the bottom shelf went a Moslem with a shattered leg, his bared, shaven head showing the tuft of hair by which Allah would raise him to heaven after death. The guy ropes of the medical tent sagged under a load of bloodstained surgical linen. As a handful of visitors, including TIME'S John Dowling, approached the tent, a weary French surgeon stepped out and said, with exquisite sangfroid: "I am enchanted to see you, messieurs...
...during their married lives Ma & Pa engaged in daily verbal sparring-usually before breakfast. But they faced the world stoutly and together-a world which consisted for years of drafty old houses (once the family lived in a tent) and endless peregrinations in search of work (Ma always bought just one railroad ticket, sent her big brood scurrying off through the train to hide in the lavatories...
Nannen's reporters found Kühn living with some vacationers in a tent along the Rhine. The editor boasted that he personally sent Kühn a change of clothes, including a pair of shoes Editor Nannen had purchased in New York while on an exchange visit financed by the U.S. State Department. Moreover, he knew where K¶hn was hiding-a resort island in the North Sea where he was being lionized as a hero and bought all the free beer he could drink. Editor Nannen dared the British to arrest him as an accessory...
...sojourn in Moscow to applaud Comrade Malenkov's paean to production, and their unanimity will please no one this side of Workers' Heaven. And the fact that the snarls at Panmunjom have given way to terse announcements of adjournment, and that these brief ceremonics have shifted from a lcaky tent to a wooden structure, does not make the news from that quarter any more delightful...
...sojourn in Moscow to applaud Comrade Malenkov's paean to production, and their unanimity will please no one this side of Workers' Heaven. And the fact that the snarls at Panmunjom have given way to terse announcements of adjournment, and that these brief ceremonies have shifted from a leaky tent to a wooden structure, does not make the news from that quarter any more delightful...