Word: tente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embrace the shift in public. Provocative it may be, hinting at perfections scarcely imagined unless the wearer were rendered shiftless. But as fashion gives way to fat, milady often assumes shapes and sizes that require all-too-little imagination. There is an answer for that, too: the tent shift, a sloping expanse of hopsacking, stretch fabric, burlap or denim that keeps her bulkiest problems right under the Big Top where they belong...
...advertising executive, "they are very successful naggers." Buy Me a Mushroom. To impress its Esso trademark on the youngsters, Humble Oil mails out thousands of bird houses, coloring books and popsicle molds among its "gifts of the month." Norge stimulated appliance sales by offering a free children's tent with every purchase. Supermarkets have found that young children, who accompany mothers on 33% of shopping trips, are very responsive to point-of-sale promotions for mushrooms, artichoke hearts and other glamorously expensive foods...
...Battle Scar. In his olive-drab headquarters tent on the Plain of Jars, wearing a T shirt, a pair of Levi's and rubber bath shoes, Kong Le perches on a stool morosely studying a map beneath the light of a swaying hurricane lamp. The picture is discouraging: the Pathet Lao are advancing in the Vang Vieng area, 13 neutralist soldiers are missing after an action at Ban Boua, a 100-truck Red supply convoy from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince...
...field, he shares his tent with three officers and four enlisted men. They mess together around a campfire, sing sad Laotian songs or dance the graceful lamvong, while Kong Le, holding two pet hamsters in his lap, looks on. His possessions are few: a desk, a footlocker, a transistor radio (gift from the U.S. ambassador), and five locked briefcases, which he keeps under his bunk. Occasionally he unlocks one to take out not confidential papers but a handkerchief and a pair of socks, and then carefully relocks...
...power, independent enclaves of specialized study have grown up within the university community (e.g. the three regional research centers, the center for International Affairs, the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the various economics research projects). In Cambridge as in other university towns, the new rule is each man to his own tent...