Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 30 hours before H-hour General Eisenhower made the great decision. The moon, the tide, the carefully calculated weather forecasts were favorable. At night, while his staff got out the orders, the General walked alone on the crunching cinder path near his headquarters tent. Deep within himself he wrestled with the feeling he called "boiling over." His fingers rubbed the lucky coins he had rubbed before the invasions of North Africa and Sicily. Now began the taut moments that come to every commander after the battle order has been given, and there is no turning back...
Twenty-four hours were left to bid his battle teams a last Godspeed. In the morning "Ike" Eisenhower stood at an English quayside, chinning in his friendly Kansas way with embarking Tommies. In the afternoon he called newsmen into his trailer tent, told them of the great decision. He slouched in his chair, grinned lopsidedly, chain-smoked cigarets, wisecracked a bit, once leaped like an uncoiled spring to exclaim...
While other circuses have emphasized the virtues of the canvas tent and sawdust ring of late, the most famous of them all has retained the sophisticated elements of the gilded spectacle that draws the crowds of the big Eastern cities...
...whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around the derrick swore it would produce...
...Every time he did he came in off the sea at ten feet or so, pulled his plane up a bit and went over our camp ... Each time there was a whoosh! as the palm trees bent at a hurricane angle and the breeze raised the tent...