Word: tente
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...soon as the bus doors opened, even the reddest-eyed wanted to beeline it for the fair's million-dollar midway. They could see the wonders agleam in the sun-the Rolloplanes, the two Ferris wheels, the giant roller coaster, the crazy houses, the Moonrocket and the sideshow tent. But teachers and chaperons had come in the buses, too, and they had a mind for other things. One teacher bluntly told her charges: "You can't ride a thing until you see all the serious exhibits...
...brick house is now owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime it is rented to Polish-born Tony Kielbasa, a tanner. Mr. King pointed to the spot where he and his brother had once pitched their tent and to a bank that had once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley. A giant tulip tree in the grove behind the house had grown so much he failed to recognize it. While he was wandering about the grounds...
...Interest. This mating system favors cross-fertilization between colonies, but is hard on bee breeders, who can never be sure that an interloper male has not outdistanced more desirable suitors. Bee men tried putting a nubile queen in a large tent with a retinue of drones. Both sexes just tried to get out. They even tethered a queen with a thread, in the hope that she would fly round & round, pursued by drones, until she was in the mating mood. This did not work either. Apparently bees will mate only when flying freely...
...that styles run in amazingly regular cycles.* The trick is timing: to pick the right idea out of the past at the right time in the present. (This year's much touted "domino coat," which makes a woman look as if she were peering out of a tent, is nothing but the pyramid coat...
...Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp once Rockefeller-controlled, has repeatedly made U.S. labor history. The blackest page was the "Ludlow Massacre" in 1914 when company police and state militia set fare to a tent city of striking workers killing 33. The nationwide uproar forced the company to change its labor policy set up a company union...