Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...design he conscientiously followed all the requirements set down by the Bishop of Coventry and his advisers, incorporated the spire of the old cathedral as an important part. He also added a few ideas of his own, e.g., a chapel in the form of a crusader's tent, zigzagging walls, electrically operated doors, and an enormous modern tapestry (yet to be designed) to hang behind the altar...
...magazine stories by Max Shulman, Dobie's activities keep involving him in such things as academic failures, incarceration for love's sake in a semester of home ec., and the righteous rages of his father, who tells Dobie: "I will pound you into the ground like a tent stake...
...fall fashions appeared in stores and dress shops last week just as the first pictures of Paris' new creations blossomed forth in the magazines. The contrast was startling. Many of the French styles seemed outlandish to the American eye. Jacques Fath offered maternity-like tent coats ("the green cone"); Balenciaga suits had elbow cuffs like parachutes. One Schiaparelli model looked like an oldtime Bloomer Girl (see cut) in an evening gown consisting of a short halter and harem-type underskirt. By comparison, conservative Hattie Carnegie's trim, attractive "spider web" evening gown looked just the thing most...
...Skeet championships (broken down into age, sex, gun-gauge, amateur and professional categories). A perfect round (25 hits, no misses) is fine shooting on anybody's skeet field. But a 25 was commonplace to the eagle-eyed marksmen who blasted away at the Dallas Gun Club's tent camp during the worst Texas heat wave in years...
...Counter-Attractions. The Reds expected their doves to carry these themes home with them, and many would. But thousands of the young Red delegates, disillusioned with the damp tent camps provided them, were more interested in the well-stocked shops on the west side of the Branderrburger Tor. West Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter ordered his police to keep all Red troublemakers out, but invited the peaceful doves to "come in, look around and breathe the free air of West Berlin for a few minutes...