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Word: tente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world stills, for the longest time. Then, at the edge of sleep, hyenas come to giggle and whoop. Peering from the tent flap, one catches in the shadows their sidelong criminal slouch. Their eyes shine like evil flashlight bulbs, a disembodied horror-movie yellow, phosphorescent, glowing like the children of the damned. In the morning, one finds their droppings: white dung, like a photographic negative. Hyenas not only eat the meat of animals but grind up and digest the bones. The hyenas' dung is white with the calcium of powdered bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Under the big tent of Memorial Hall today, students can hear African poetry readings, see performances of Asian and Native American dance, and sample food from 17 cultures...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Fair Offers International Flavor | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

...Gordon Track & Tennis Center 1932,33,34,35,36 Palmer Dixon Courts 1937, 50th Reunion Weld Boathouse 1938,39,40 Carey Cage 1942 Blodgett Pool Lounge 1943 Bright Hockey Center 1944 Weld Boathouse 1945,46,47,48,49,50 Carey Cage 1946 Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School 1952, 35th Reunion Tent next to Palmer Dixon Tent next to Palmer Dixon 1955 Newell Boathouse 1957,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,70,71 Palmer Dixon Courts 1962, 25th Reunion Tent next to Palmer Dixon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale, November 22, 1986 | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson Key Society plans to erect its telltale red and white tent next to the Undergraduate Council tailgate near the closed end of the stadium. The Key tailgate will be open to Crimson Key members and guests only. "It's a good way for us to get together and celebrate," said Co-President Anne D. Berlin...

Author: By Angela G. Jacobs, | Title: Students to Tailgate in the Snow and Indoors | 11/21/1986 | See Source »

...Three years later he again intervened for Brit ain, this time in Libya, where four British citizens had been jailed, unwitting pawns in an ugly political duel between the governments in London and Tripoli. Following a Christmas Day meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan strongman's Bedouin tent, the Britons were freed. In September 1985 Waite played a still unspecified role in the release of a U.S. hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, who had been held for 16 months in Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terry Waite: An Extraordinary Envoy | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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