Word: tente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...north-south thoroughfare. Next, moving harborward, came I.M. Pei's 28-story World Trade Center. It was accompanied by a long-needed Convention Center and the Maryland Science Center, where visitors are encouraged to touch exhibits, push buttons, pull levers and turn wheels. Also on the waterfront, a music tent called the Outdoor Concert...
...berets or khaki forage caps emblazoned with buttons, Scout knives dangling from every webbed belt, the youngsters here plunge into seven days of whirlwind activity. They compete in a wilderness decathlon, pitch horseshoes, brand leather, play soccer and Frisbee, build a bridge without any rope, set up a tent blindfolded, run an obstacle course with arms tied, fish, canoe, raft, fire air rifles on a marksmanship range...
...night, with tent flaps open and the light of campfires flickering beneath the towering dark trees, a harmonica plays a mournful country-and-western air and young voices hum along. Guitars and a drum join in, changing the melody. "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye," the Scouts sing, none louder than a large contingent from Oklahoma. Their voices seem to reach the tops of the trees. If there are doubts about the move away from city Scouting, they pass into the night. "Sure, kids today are different," says Scoutmaster Arthur Ferraro, 64, of Westerly...
...crowd sweltering under a tent on the South Lawn of the White House last week had gathered at a great occasion. On a platform were Conductor Leonard Slatkin and, instruments at the ready, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. In the audience: the President of the United States. But the real guest of honor was the shade of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose long-lost Symphony in F, K. 19a, was having its American premiere more than two centuries after it was written and several months after it mysteriously surfaced in West Germany. The composer was all of nine...
Back under the tent, the contest continues. They are gradually weeding boys out--their muscles are too flabby, or their pectorals are too small, or their routines need work. Those who are left are getting tired, striking pose after pose on a hot afternoon, worrying about who will win. The stakes aren't very high," and there'll be other contests, "but there's a lot of pride on the line," one father says. "These guys have worked real hard to improve themselves. They've got a lot of pride...