Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three battle wounds. Two of his wounds were still bandaged; the third did not show. In his last brush with the Jap, Arthur Wermuth had been shot in the chest, close to the heart. When he announced that he was going back to the front, the doctors in the tent hospital shook their heads and let him go. The wound was still open and draining as Wermuth sloshed through the rain to his next appointment...
...newly created Lord Wedgwood, potteries scion and for 35 years a stanchly liberal M.P., went off on another tack. "This overemphasized question of slavery! One can go into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...
...Kazak's life is to go skimming over the plains on his steed, rounding up horses or collecting stray cattle. His tent is warm, his clothing ample, his belly full, and he lives a free and untrammeled existence with religion sitting lightly...
...once the greatest mess of wishful thinking and the greatest production dream in U.S. history. It multiplied astronomically impossible figures by five and hoped that each figure would show up as something hard, tangible, useful or deadly: a tank, a gun, a ship, a plane, a truck, a tent, a uniform, a mess kit, a blanket, a parachute, a monkey wrench, a lathe, a screw...
...battle pitches a tent of smoke and dust over itself. Into the murk new forms rush. Supply vehicles, naked of protection, dart squarely into the mixup, make contact with tanks which have run out of fuel or ammunition, and, if they are not crumpled, bounce out again. Command cars dash in & out. Ambulances go in undaunted, and their crews run about hunting wounded...