Word: tente
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Monty refused even to discuss such terms. With the ultimate gesture of military scorn, he took them into his tent and showed them where they stood-on his own battle operations map. Then he sent them off to lunch...
...Germans wait-ten minutes, 20 minutes. Then, still deliberate, he walked to his van and sent for Friedeberg. The German commander came, puffing a cigaret to its finger-burning end. A few moments later he emerged, his shoulders drooping. With the others he walked quickly to a brown tent with two of its sides rolled up. They sat stiffly at a plain trestle table covered with a grey blanket. On it was an inkwell with a plain, wooden pen, the kind a post office provides...
...Well done," said the Marine Corps when four prisoners in Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary completed their subcontract for wooden tent pegs. But the Philadelphia Record, delving into the business affairs of the convict-capitalists last week, was not so pleased. The reason: the four prisoners had grossed $58,300 in two years. In some months, their net profits ran as high as $450 apiece...
Over two years ago the Marine Corps contracted with the Pennsylvania State Department of Welfare for millions of tent pegs to be made in prison workshops at Eastern. Part of this fat contract was farmed out by the Welfare Department to the four inmates at Eastern, who operate their own hobby shop...
Wherever Lieut. General Sir Montagu George North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride & joy was a 10-ft. python, maintained in sheer defiance of Hilaire Bellocs advice on pets: "A python, I should not advise; it needs a doctor for its eyes, and has the measles yearly...