Word: tente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the ceremony was history, Jimmy Carter went back to work-there is always something that needs doing in that office. He briefed congressional leaders, left instructions for his staff, then he jogged four miles around the big tent that was waiting for the party...
...another part of the tent, Mrs. Ezer Weizman, wife of the Israeli Minister of Defense, turned to Kissinger with tears in her eyes. "I never thought that I would live to see it," she said. Then she looked over to where her husband was introducing her son, severely wounded in the 1973 war, to the son of Anwar Sadat...
...refrigerator trucks were borrowed from the military, and so were two old but serviceable Sears, Roebuck fishing boats that were used to chill the white wine and champagne. Washington's Ridgewells Caterer provided gold ballroom chairs, creamcolored china with gold borders, cutlery, glasses, fingerbowls and napkins. The main tent, gay as springtime with its tangerine and yellow stripes, was longer than the White House itself. It and six smaller tents were rented for about $12,000 from a Maryland company...
...could argue that the money was not well spent: the party was as joyous as the occasion. Reports TIME White House Correspondent Christopher Ogden: "None of the warmth or festiveness was lost in the cavernous, 45-ft.-high tent, which somehow, perhaps because of the informal table hopping, seemed almost cozy. The candelabra on the tent poles created a romantic mood, almost like that of a college prom. It was comfortable, pleasant and fun, but not ostentatious...
...dusk, he camped on a ledge barely large enough for one person. As it was, he couldn't pitch his tent properly or use his stove. The tent fabric whipped back and forth in 35-40 m.p.h. winds and the Harvard senior occasionally worried about dehydration--since he couldn't use the stove, he was unable to melt snow for water...