Word: tente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...square-foot yellow-and-white UHS tent on the Science Center lawn had already drawn 1,500 students...
...cases, more than 70% of the body is darkened. "The intense heat and the inability to get away [are what] makes these burns so severe," says Dr. Roger Yurt, director of the unit. One patient, scorched by a fireball of debris, lies almost completely swathed in bandages under a tent of heat shields and blankets. Another, propelled forward by a ruptured steam pipe, is scorched along his back and the back of his legs but was miraculously spared on the entire front of his body--a stark representation of the arbitrary line drawn between health and injury, normality and trauma...
...Maintaining the alliance will, no doubt, involve ongoing political dialogue with many of its members on these and many other issues. But President Bush on Thursday raised the poles of a very big tent. European allies may have grumbled about unilateralism during the first six months of the Bush administration and Arab allies may have fretted over Washington's absence from the Iraeli-Palestinian crisis. But Thursday's speech will be remembered as the moment when President Bush became, in every sense, a world leader...
...York did when I lived there in the 1980s." That's just about the worst insult you could deliver in Japan, but Yasunori Fukugawa, 47, a professor of urban planning, isn't the only one who sniffs trouble. In the shadows of Tokyo's futuristic skyscrapers, there are tent cities with hundreds of permanently homeless men. Mother Teresa's nuns have set up a soup kitchen in the second richest nation on Earth. The economy is shrinking, and the official unemployment rate has risen to 5%, highest in a generation. In recent weeks, the blue-chip stars of the country...
HERO After a grueling march back, Scott dies in his tent, only 11 miles from a depot equipped with food and oil. Hailed as a symbol of British courage...