Word: tente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAOS, the decay of the U.S. position has gone ever further. From the beginning, Washington hoped somehow to avoid having to accept Prince Souvanna Phouma as Premier of Laos. Last week the hope went glimmering. In a candy-striped tent on the Lik River, at meetings punctuated by toasts in champagne and burgundy, "Neutralist" Souvanna was selected Premier by two fellow princes, his Communist half brother Souphanouvong and the dispirited pro-Westerner, Boun Oum. Worse, it seems evident that U.S.-supported General Phoumi Nosavan will be fobbed off with a minor cabinet post-or with none at all. His Royal...
...Harry Truman when Rayburn rejected it. "I'd rather be Speaker than any ten Senators," he sometimes said. "I love the House." It was a love that stretched back to early boyhood. As a suntanned youngster in Bonham, Texas, he peeped under the flap of a fairground tent and, with thumping heart, listened to the thunderations of Joe Bailey, a hell-for-leather Congressman. That did it. Later, Sam confided his ambitions to a brother: "I'm going to make a lawyer and go to Congress...
...even among moderates, there are extremes in points of view, mostly over whether members of the Trujillo family should be permitted to stay or be forced out. Getting all the moderates into the same tent will strain even the compromising talents of Democratizer Balaguer...
...lift their 800 pounds of food and gear to the first ridge, over a 600-foot 60-degree icy slope. After that task was completed the first snow and wind came, preventing further movement the next day. By the fourth day the storm worsened and the group found its tent ripped badly by the wind. Thereafter they used snow caves on their way--first to 15,500 feet and then 17,000 feet...
Undaunted, Zanuck continues to press on with his stupefying re-creation of the most dramatic hours of the European war. Operating out of a blue-striped field headquarters tent, the Supremo has gone on the wagon for the duration, strictly limiting himself to an occasional bottle of beer, to set a solid example for his troupers. Cigar set grimly between his teeth, he takes to the air in a little French Alouette helicopter, zipping back and forth between production units, letting his men see their leader taking risks. He frankly admits that his "filmization" will often mow down the facts...