Word: tente
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...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...
...virtually unavailable in Peking, and most of the news organizations will end up scrambling for long-term leases on some of the city's 5,000 suitable hotel rooms. If necessary, quips CBS News President Richard S. Salant, "we'll put our correspondents up in a tent." The cost of maintaining a Peking bureau can be high (upwards of $100,000 a year for print journalists, even more for the larger TV crews), partly because so much equipment must be imported; old Peking hands say that newcomers should plan to bring not only their own cars but also...
...ulema's determination to enforce strict Koranic law on Saudi citizens. Two Britons recently were arrested and deported after being found with a lone woman at a seaside picnic. In September, three Saudi men were beheaded after being caught having sexual relations with a woman in a tent. Thus, with the Islamic law so rigidly enforced, it is most unlikely that the religious leaders would ever lead a resistance movement against the House of Saud...
...Project's content varied from vaudeville revivals to avant-garde experimentation, its sources from Eugene O'Neill and George Bernard Shaw to undiscovered playwrights, its performers from an aging generation whose formative experiences were in tent shows, travelling troupes, and vaudeville theaters to an energetic new generation that would dominate American entertainment for years to come, a crew that included Orson Welles and John Houseman, Will Geer and John Huston, E.G. Marshall and Joseph Cotton...
...hosts and hostesses have at last abandoned the practice of segregating the sexes after dinner (brandy and cigars for the boys, needlepoint chitchat for the girls)?to the working-class discos, where young women are cultivating a sexual aggressiveness that would have put Emily Post in an oxygen tent...