Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jaakko Mikkola's condition was described as "just fair" yesterday, although his name remained on the critical list at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The attendant stated Mikkola spent a comfortable night, but he has not yet regained sufficient strength to move actively. He has been under an oxygen tent intermittently since his admittance Sunday...
...fanciful. But Joe Fletcher, then C.O. of the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron at Fairbanks, Alaska, kept wheedling and nagging at his superiors. Last week Fletcher's party finally fought their way on to the ice island some 100 miles from the North Pole. With a double-thickness tent, a month's rations, primus stoves and a minimum of meteorological equipment, they set up camp...
...stop piracy) are hopeful. A subsidiary of Iraq Petroleum (which is American, British, French and Dutch owned) is prospecting the area for oil, meanwhile paying the Sheiks a small subsidy. So far the wells have been dry, but the drillers-a hardbitten, windburned American crew who live in primitive tent camps, drinking distilled water, eating out of cans-are convinced that next year fortune will strike the sheikdoms...
...ranks. Other U.S. soldiers went to the rescue with bayoneted rifles and carbines. Suddenly, from the rear of the prisoners, a homemade grenade came hurtling at the Americans. The mass of prisoners, urged on by group leaders charged the soldiers. Singing and shout ing, they swung clubs, tent poles, barbed wire flails and iron pipes...
...question before the tent was what the military commanders of both sides should recommend to their governments for joint discussion, after a truce is effected. Hitherto the Communists have been demanding that any settlement of the Korean question must also include settlement of Formosa and U.N. recognition of Red China. Now Nam simply proposed that a high-level political conference be held, within three months of signing the armistice, "by representatives appointed respectively to settle . . . the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea, a peaceful settlement of the Korean question, et cetera...