Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spends his summers romping around his grandmother's Cape Cod cottage. One morning he and Cousin Grant Howes set out to explore the bayberry thickets, to find a new short cut to the beach. Instead they found something that set their pulses racing: a hidden, camouflaged tent filled with radio equipment...
They ran to a Coast Guard base, panted out their story. Coastguardsmen followed them to the tent. This time it was guarded by a husky teen-aged German-talking youth, who charged at "Neddie" Collins with a bayonet, ran smack into a Coast Guard fist. As Neddie and his pal watched wide-eyed. Guardsmen hauled away spy and radio-a two-way, short-wave station complete with hidden aerial...
Glenn Taylor toured the State 15 years ago with a tent show, playing hick dramas to hick audiences. But he boasts that he made better money campaigning for Senator in 1940 (when he won the Democratic nomination but lost the election to Republican John Thomas for the late, great William Borah's seat) than he ever did in show business...
Once his men were in Africa, Rommel made them as comfortable as possible. Each man got his own green bivouac tent, with a floor, and a pack containing a camp stove, solid fuel, eye lotion, mouthwash, body powder, washing sets, flashlight, billfolds. Rations included beer, coffee, tinned and fresh meat, lemons, potatoes, onions. Hospitals were never short of anything. At the rest camps in the rear there were beer gardens, brass bands, playing grounds, movies...
When Brereton's men first assembled in New Delhi, turbaned maharajas in the convening Chamber of Princes, and members of India's Legislative Assembly, crowded the city's hotels. Miss Hotz, manager of the Cecil Hotel, offered Brereton & staff tent space on the garden lawn. "But, oh, Miss Hotz, you will spoil the hollyhocks," a woman guest protested. Miss Hotz risked the hollyhocks. Later, Brereton found working and living space at another hotel, where an air conditioner presented by General Motors officials in Bombay now cools his sleep and labors...