Word: tente
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...spent shell fragment. . . tore a hole through my pup tent just beside me one noon while I was resting. I keep this, for I have a certain sentimental attachment for it. Had it been an inch longer, my life would have been a lot shorter...
Companionship of Death. In a burned tent about two miles from Massacre, I found eight grotesque little Japanese bodies, clothes burned off, arms reaching outward or upward-where there were arms. Two bodies were burned to crisps, one atop the other, fused into one charred hump...
After fingerprinting, the bodies were carried through the identification tent and wrapped in khaki blankets tied at three places: around the neck, the waist and the feet...
...vaulted over the huge United Provinces and Bihar to include Bengal and Assam in the northeast. This was the most ambitious claim to territories since Jinnah had first espoused Pakistan as a slogan to bargain against Hindu political domination. The directed cheers of his party and the pandal (huge tent) bright with Pakistan banners (see cut) heartened...
...month. Private Bill Martin learned that a man who had worked 18 hours a day in civilian life (as he had) could climb fast in the Army. Painstakingly he learned to shoot a rifle, even tried to pay the Government for extra practice ammunition. In his tent at nights, he studied military histories, textbooks on strategy...