Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants - and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...level on Salcantay's eastern face-and they were immediately snowed in for three days. Six days later, they built a base camp of snowblocks at 17,220 ft. Susan stayed there; the bearded Swiss slogged on for three days to 18,500 ft. and pitched a tent for their high camp. At that rarefied height, the temperature, in the bright sunlight, 122° F.; twelve hours later it fell to -15°. Nevertheless, the climbers toiled on next day, up another 1,300 ft. to a cave. The following morning, as the sun rose out of the steaming...
...went the intellectual acrobats and performing seals of Communism's traveling peace circus. Two hundred strong, they staged their third meeting of the World Peace Council beneath a Barnum-&-Bailey-sized replica of Picasso's peace dove. And as usually happens when Communists gather under a big tent, the verbal contortionists stole the show...
...dream of freedom, the fighting spirit, the hatred of tyranny and the sense of purpose that gave it birth, the U.S. is engaged in a frustrating, distant war that seems to have lost its meaning. It has been called a "police action," but the police are sitting in a tent arguing with the criminals...
...autopsy performed to prove that he had not been poisoned by Stalin. But Zbarsky and Vorobyev, employing secret methods, restored the corpse so that in the next 15 years millions of faithful Communists were able to file reverently past Lenin's body as it lay under a glass tent in a red granite mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square. More detached visitors noted a progressive wasting in the skillful job done by Zbarsky and Vorobyev...