Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Each compound," says one high-ranking officer, "seethes with intrigue-half figuring ways to escape, the rest pressure groups fighting each other. Killings? Plenty of them. The victims are usually beaten to death with tent poles." So far, on Beggars' Island, some 30 or 40 prisoners have been murdered by their fellows, and the beatings are innumerable. In one night last week, in one compound alone, there were seven beatings. Some of these fights can be traced to competition for homosexual favors, but most are battles be tween Communists and antiCommunists. Some 13,000 Chinese and 6,000 North...
...Schuman Plan also gets the camel's nose of political federation under the tent. It sets up a super-government which for once avoids the dreamy supposition that all the members will love each other; rather it assumes that they will often be at odds, and seeks to prevent one-nation domination by an ingenious system of checks & balances. This is done by having the $4.5 billion annual coal and steel business run by a day-to-day executive of nine men-no more than two from one country -known as the High Authority. It is appointed...
Hasty Heart. For years Buntline was a bigamist, kept one wife in New York City, the other in Westchester, N.Y. What with dashing from one wife to the other, delivering lectures and churning out dime novels, he had little time for his favorite refuge-an Indian tent on the outskirts of Stamford, N.Y., where he wrote a tract titled "Woman as Angel and Fiend." He was also, he claimed, founder of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, vice president of the Patriotic and Benevolent Order of the Sons of America, and a pillar of the Order of Good Templars...
...heaviest engagements last week were fought in the two conference tents at Panmunjom. Bitter argument continued on the emotion-charged issue of the prisoners (see below); but, however that was settled, it would not affect the shape of the peace. The shape of things to come lurked in the other tent, where U.N.-Communist negotiators were still trying to come to terms on means of safeguarding an armistice...
...Spokane papers has been W. H. Cowles Jr., now 49. Unlike his father, who held a firm finger on the whole operation, diffident "Billy" Cowles leaves the Review news department to 38-year-old Managing Editor James Bracken. Though the paper still covers its region like a tent, it no longer has its former editorial prowess. Bracken has been trying to restore it by scraping some of the moss off the Review's Republicanism to bring it more in line with the increasing industrialization of the area. His progress has not been empire-shaking. Many a Spokane citizen still...