Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white-tie dinner for the Trumans and a few others, M. Auriol will give a reception to which he, as an old parliamentarian himself, plans to invite every member of the Senate and the House. To handle the overflow, the embassy is putting up a large green and white tent, with a wooden floor...
...Africa during World War II, he would go out evenings and scan the horizon. Anyone who wandered near would be accosted with, "Look at that peak. Let's climb it." And off the general and the unfortunate would go. His aides used to duck into the nearest tent when the general came out to scan the evening sky. At home he plays deck tennis, handball, likes camping and hunting. In Korea he gets most of his exercise by walking. Sometimes, to channel some of his physical energy, he climbs a hill and strides endlessly back & forth along the skyline...
...babie-clouts will buy? O wha will tent me when I cry? Wha will kiss me where...
...informal little Lemonade Opera (TIME, June 20, 1949), tried some of his favorite tricks from the old days. He set up a small platform in the center of the huge main stage, kept the action confined to it. To the scandal of traditionalists, he even took away the tent that generations of Pagliaccis have clung to as they sobbed the clown's famous aria. Tenor Ramon Vinay did his sobbing in front of a dismal little curtain that was lowered behind him. As at the Lemonade Opera, perky choristers danced on from time to time with props...
Miracle Enough. Using this rapid technique, Dr. Dass officiates at an average of 15 eye clinics throughout India every year. Free to the patients, the clinics are paid for by local institutions and public-spirited citizens. At the end of two weeks' care in the tent-hospitals, his patients get a pair of thick eyeglasses to replace their natural lenses, and are sent home. Each patient also gets a questionnaire to fill out and send in later for the doctor's records, but few bother...