Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fortnight ago, New Zealand-born Keith Palmer (Melbourne, Australia Herald and U.S. Newsweek) was killed and Associated Pressman Rembert James wounded when a Japanese bomb demolished a correspondents' tent on Bougainville Island. Palmer was the 15th British Empire reporter to be killed in World War II. U.S. deaths...
During the action in Sicily, General Patton visited an evacuation hospital. He was conducted to the receiving tent, where 15 casualties had just come in from the front...
Another new insecticide, phenothiazine, has been found extraordinarily effective against tent caterpillars, cattle ticks, Mexican bean beetles, corn borers, many another pest...
...objects of contempt to the enemies of their country." In his camps in India he read constantly, kept on the move, ate frugally, drank little.* His officers, up at 4:30, drank a cup of tea before daylight, breakfasted in their overcoats on a table before Wellington's tent, and then set out on the day's march, the Duke riding on the dusty flank...
...Chicago, members of the Restaurant Association hopefully adopted a new plan to keep their waitresses happy-offered to send them through music school. In San Diego, OPA ordered rent reductions by a woman who had rented as living quarters her home, her old garage, her new garage, a tent on her lawn, a bed under a canopy in her back yard...