Word: tente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christopher D. Rider '57, president of the Rochester club, explains it, the two clubs collaborated two years ago to rent a tent for the Cornell game in Ithaca, N.Y. It poured the day of the game, and many expected guests failed to show--including the members of the Syracuse club. "They seem to be a very nebulous club; we couldn't find their core," Rider says, and the Rochester contingent was left with the rain, the tent, and, it seems...
...popular are the company's various camping stoves. One famous model was the pocket stove developed for American G.I.s in World War II. Few well-equipped hunters will venture into the wilderness this fall without a Coleman stove or lantern - or at least a Coleman sleeping bag, tent, cooler or sturdy canoe...
...life-style that the sociologists found seems to have changed drastically. Even with today's can-you-top-this cult scene, his account of training for life in outer space is remarkable. Each minute, 24 hours a day, a musical beep sounds across the camp from a command tent ("Central"). During the day, at twelve-beep intervals, the disciples check Central for their next task. Among their duties: camp chores, perimeter guarding and stints as "rotating eyes" (monitoring campers' conduct and reporting violations...
...daily meals (called "lab experiments") a blackboard in the dining tent lists "formulas" that specify the menu (PA for potatoes, CA for cake). The food must be consumed with meticulous care to reduce noise. Bo and Peep usually shop for food and supplies personally. They always pay cash, once explaining to cult members, Groll recalls, that we "didn't have any need to wonder" about money...
...heavily black communities. When it's hot, people are out all over; Donnell's Store does brisk business in ice, soda pop and ice cream despite a sign admonishing "No Checks Accepted Unless You Are 99 With Your Mother 109." Further down, near the river, you may find a tent crusade. All this summer, the Reverend Ezra kept his congregation under the canvas with his message that riches lead to misery. "He don't own that million dollars, it owns him," Ezra proclaims. "None of us owns anything. Whatever we accumulate, God can come anytime he wants and pick...