Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Tent io Palace. In 1921, as a reward for the Hashemites' services, Britain's Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, made Abdullah Emir of Trans-Jordan and made his brother Feisal King of Iraq. The boys had their troubles. Their father, Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, was attacked by his old rival, Ibn Saud. In the end, Ibn Saud drove the Sherif out of his domain, annexed Mecca and the surrounding district to his holdings in Arabia...
Emir Abdullah, meanwhile, worked hard to transform Jordan, an ungainly, rocky patch of land, into a kingdom. For two years he lived in a tent. On the tent site at Amman Abdullah later built his palace. He ruled as an absolute monarch, but the poorest Bedouin could come to plead with him at any time. He once spent a whole day personally tracking down a rascal who had made a poor woman pregnant...
...years, Louisianans have had their own two-party system-a man is either Long or anti-Long. Last week a new twist was added-a Long pitched his tent in the camp of the anti-Longs...
While playing golf last week at Tokyo, Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, commander of U.S. Far East Air Forces, suffered a heart attack. This week he was under an oxygen tent in a Tokyo hospital. At 60, genial "Strat" was in no shape to carry on, would probably have to write finis to a fine military career, which began with his graduation from West Point in 1915, brought him to command of the Army Air Forces in the India-Burma theater during World War II and to his F.E.A.F. post in April 1949. The Pentagon quickly named...
Hassard Short, who is guilty of directing the play, has apparently decided that Willy's role is an inconsishe seems a veritable folk hero. In the finale the silly tent one. At times the young Baxter appears thoroughly ludicrous, but often, as when he sings love ballads, Willy--and that is just what he is most of the time--imagines marriage with his true puppy love, a vision enacted in full regalia. Bride, groom, and a score of bridesmaids attired in pink march under the spotlights to the front of the stage...