Word: tente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tightly written political news, and often clearly explains complicated issues. But the Sun makes no effort to report the news of what is happening in Britain, let alone the world. It concentrates on sports, gossip about TV stars and sex, mostly sex. Sample headlines: I'LL STILL SHARE A TENT WITH SHARON; GREEN-EYED SEX FIEND IS HUNTED; APACHE STRIP PUTS PARSON ON WARPATH?a story about a male entertainer named Apache who stripped off his clothes while performing at a women's bingo party to raise money to buy a water bed for a priest...
...Broad Tent. With fewer than half of the 150 members of the Republican National Committee in his camp, Reagan's ability to force a new chairman on the party is questionable. Some of his advisers are preaching caution in any case. Said one: "My concern is that whatever is done be done in such a way that it doesn't look like a conservative purge. The Republican tent has to be broad." But others are urging Reagan to be more aggressive. Said Lyn Nofziger, Reagan's longtime political aide: "We don't want...
...career. He was a large man, six feet four and over two hundred pounds, nicknamed "The Big Swede," and his playing ability earned him a spot on Walter Camp's Second Team All American Squad. My brothers and I learned this all secondhand; my grandfather died in an oxygen tent fighting pneumonia, his body ravaged by time and too much alcohol, when my father was still a young man. By all accounts, he led an active and unusual life: prospecting in the Far West, hunting trips in Canada, a lucrative law practice in Boston and New York, the summer home...
...years. A few hundred yards farther along his route, a blast of orange flame engulfed Letelier's light blue Chevelle, blowing away the sheet-metal on the door on the driver's side, smashing the windows and floor and jamming the roof up as if a tent pole had been rammed into it. Parts of the shattered car rained down as far as 250 feet away...
...these civilizations, at puberty, boys are taken from their mothers and placed in isolation in a womb-like situation in a tent. After many days they are pulled out by their heads through their fathers' legs. At this recapitulation of the original birth experience, they babble like babies. But soon afterward they are given weapons of adult men to signify that they are ready after their second birth to accept the responsibilities of adult life...