Word: tente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rebuild. President Frei ordered army units into stricken areas with bulldozers, food and clothes. A tent village sprang up outside El Cobre, and the afternoon after the quake Frei himself arrived. "This is terrible, terrible," he repeated. "Señor Presidente, help us," pleaded one miner. "That is why I am here," said Frei, "to be with you." Army engineers dug for bodies, found...
...Farouk dined at midnight on oysters, roast lamb, cake and fruit. At 1:30 in the morning, as he enjoyed a postprandial cigar, Farouk said he felt faint, clutched at his throat and fell forward on the table. An ambulance was summoned and Farouk was placed in an oxygen tent at the hospital. Minutes later he was dead, apparently of a heart attack. Found on Farouk's body were a gold wedding ring, a cigarette lighter, a watch, a pill box initialed 'F,' a pair of dark glasses, a loaded Beretta automatic, identity pa pers...
Anyone heading south just now had better forget his dinner jacket and pack a pup tent instead. With hotels throughout the Caribbean booked solid and Florida enjoying its best weather in 16 years, finding a place in the sun is less of a social whirl than a survival course...
...wounds of the battlefield casualty often cry out for the most advanced skills of modern medicine. But the battlefield surgeon has always worked against forbidding odds. Aseptic surgery is practically impossible in a tent operating room of the sort that has gone almost unchanged for 100 years. The canvas is far from airtight, and temperature control is so bad that an infusion bottle might freeze and shatter in mid-operation. The lab work that is essential in today's medicine and surgery is usually out of the question...
...them -three tiny human spiders, inching their way up the mountain. As soon as the plane banked away, clouds swept in. At 3 a.m. it began snowing, and 60-m.p.h. gusts lashed at the climbers, clinging like cocoons to the cliff in their sleeping bags. One gust ripped the tent off Bonatti's head, and tiny slivers of ice, sharp as thumbtacks, dug at his eyes. "I found myself at 13,000 feet in a terrible position," Bonatti said later. His face was rimmed with ice, and he was in excruciating pain. "But we all three had to remain...