Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks or your letters, welcome here in what used to be called "the land of the morning calm." I'm writing from a sweltering tent at Corps headquarters on what is known as the "west central quarters on what is known as the "west central front." There used to be a central front, an eastern front, and western front. New there is a western front, a west central front, an east central front, and an eastern front. Miraculously, we have abolished the just plain "central front" and the war goes gruesomely...
...their curriculum had dealt with technical matters, e.g., "Types of Ministry and Duty" on shipboard, with the Air Force, the infantry, in hospitals, and in induction and separation centers. Next semester, with an estimated enrollment of 20, Renfer expects to include training in such skills as pitching a pup tent, finding a water supply, staying healthy while living in the open...
...minutes later, Owens felt a movement in the heart. He took his hand away, slowly and tentatively. The heart kept on beating. He felt for the pulse. It was good. The man was alive again. Dr. Owens hurriedly sewed up the chest and rushed the patient to an oxygen tent...
...barren canyon. Jerry soothed them-they were supposed to live "close to the earth." Under his direction they put up shacks, built a fine water wheel (there was no water to turn it) and began scratching out vegetable gardens, and raising chickens and rabbits. A Beautiful Bible Tent for the Last Days was also erected...
...removed one of Stephen's kidneys in an attempt to halt its relentless advance. But the cancer spread through the child's abdomen and into his chest. By last January it had destroyed one of his lungs. Two weeks ago Stephen was put into an oxygen tent. Doctors told his parents the end was near. Hugh Ridlon, 28, an ex-G.I., and his wife Helen asked Stephen what he wanted most in the world. "Another Christmas tree," he answered. Last week, soon after he saw his tree, Stephen died...