Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panmunjom last week, the frozen furrows of the millet field around the truce talks tent softened to the first thaw of the new year. The cold features of North Korea's General Nam II were also a degree or two warmer. For the first time since the resumption of the truce talks last fall, the Communist negotiator brought along with him, in his shiny black Chrysler, a proposition that seemed to offer an acceptable formula on an important issue...
...addition to the talk, there will be two showings of the movie "Tent City...
Until the answers are arrived at, the U.S. policy in Korea is not to walk out of the circus tent at Panmunjom...
...tired. Voila! One sees Mile. Pepita. She is as cold and as tired as anyone else, but still smiling." Pepita's uniform, like her rank, is unique: she wears tailored, olive green slacks, a white blouse beneath a woolen khaki jacket and a cerise scarf. In her small tent, which was sieved by mortar fragments last October, there is a salvaged dressing table littered with a dozen perfumes, powders and toilet accessories. Hanging from the tent pole is a Paris wardrobe. "For Tokyo," she explains...
...contracts were let by the Air Force at fancy prices. Examples: $23,800 for 28 wooden tent frames, each 16 by 32 ft.; $6,000 to paint and glaze a six-room shack for Base Operations; $25,720 for three latrines; $45,715 for a combination theater, recreation hall and basketball court. Workers, expecting to get something resembling the wages paid in the U.S., got only 64 francs (19? an hour, the lowest possible wage in the Bordeaux area...