Word: tente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organizers of the march had publicly predicted a throng of 100,000, although they privately felt confident that many more than that would show up. Now, peeking out of the green-and-white circus tent that served as their headquarters on the Monument grounds, the leaders began to worry that the crowd might fall short of their minimal hopes...
...Baptist preacher from North Carolina, had recently flopped at a revival meeting in Altoona, Pa. Brought to Los Angeles by a group of fundamentalist ministers to conduct an evangelistic mission, he ran into discouraging difficulties. His sponsors had trouble raising the $20,000 budget; the owner of the selected tent site refused to rent it for the crusade; the fire commissioner complained that the circus-style tent was a public hazard...
Breathe Deeply. The emphysema (pronounced em-fih-see-muh) mobile unit consisted of a truck parked outside the House with an Army tent set up beside it. Mr. Speaker-Massachusetts' John McCormack-was first in line when the unit opened. Within the week, more than 300 Senators and Representatives followed...
...recent years, he has announced his intention in advance to the press, then retreated behind the massive doors of his official residence to receive the parliamentary possibles one by one. And each time the Tokyo reporters have rushed over to cover the story, setting up a tento mura (tent village) outside his door for the day-and-night vigil that sometimes goes on and on for weeks...
Last week's tento mura was the biggest ever, and the usual carnival air hung over the scene. But, alas, Ikeda's Cabinet problem was speedily resolved, and the tents came down after only two days. Sighed one disappointed reporter: "Now I have to go home to my wife. In the good old days we could count on being away much longer. There's something about a tent village that's invigorating. You just can't have a new Cabinet without...