Word: tente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overnight, a small tent city of sympathizers sprouted around the gas station, which became a sort of shrine. A Franciscan priest celebrated Mass there each evening until last week, when Chavez, more than 30 Ibs. lighter-he went without food for four days longer than Gandhi during his 1924 hunger strike-ended his fast...
Rose is a "civilized" Aborigine-which means that he was born under a roof. But the family "humpy" in Gippsland had no floor, no electricity, no toilet, no running water. And Rose's father, an itinerant "tent fighter" who made the rounds of country fairs and carnivals, boxing local stalwarts, died when Lionel was 15. The eldest of nine children, Rose turned to boxing, too-as a means of supporting his family. He fought 19 amateur bouts before collecting his first pro purse in 1964: it came to $45. For last week's fight with Harada, Rose flew...
...great patches of Israeli farm land into rolling seas of flame. Then the Israelis called out their air force. For nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm on the East Bank. They destroyed a guerrilla base, damaged several towns, terrorized Arab refugee tent-camps and knocked out gun emplacements as far inland as Irbid, 20 miles away on Jordan's arid central plateau...
Sicily was still quaking last week as American relief planes lifted off for Palermo. Air Force and Navy transports carried tents, blankets, food, military trucks and antibiotics, a full 72,000 lbs. of emergency supplies for the victims of the island's worst disaster since 1908 (see THE WORLD). Within hours of the first flights, U.S. television screens recorded glimpses of their handiwork: snug tent villages erected amidst the rubble, field kitchens turning out hot meals, doctors and medics ministering to the shocked and the injured. No one watched with greater concern than Stephen R. Tripp, 56, a dapper...
...supply stores to rent iron lungs, and last July he turned Sears, Roebuck & Co. into an Omar the Tentmaker to provide $1,800,000 worth of "Ted Williams Campers" for 100,000 Jordanians displaced by the Arab-Israeli war. Tripp is an avid outdoorsman and thus an aficionado of tent living by avocation...