Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixty-five-year-old Charles Davis, who had paced nervously below his children at every performance of their high-wire balancing act, was ready when it happened in a Miami circus tent. As his son and daughter lost their balance and toppled, Davis hurled himself forward and cushioned their fall with his body. His children survived with back injuries; he suffered only bruises...
...Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto roads will follow." Nellie went to Palm Springs and bought 1¼ acres and a bungalow on the lee (east) side of San Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself, rented the three bedrooms in the house to guests, usually folks with tuberculosis or asthma. Gradually she expanded the house, but it took her until 1919 to show her first profit. As a village grew up around her inn, she bought another 35 acres of land...
...through an unexplored forest which rose "like a dark, dense colonnade." Pigmies assailed them and, according to Stanley's story, more than one Zanzibari "disappeared into the cooking pot." He also described butterflies flying overhead in clouds, "some taking hours to pass"; beetles boring into the tent poles and showering sawdust into the soup. Natives shot poisoned arrows at the passing column, "baboons howled within the darkness . . . and . . . herds of hippopotami grunted thunderously" along the river...
...soon as the bus doors opened, even the reddest-eyed wanted to beeline it for the fair's million-dollar midway. They could see the wonders agleam in the sun-the Rolloplanes, the two Ferris wheels, the giant roller coaster, the crazy houses, the Moonrocket and the sideshow tent. But teachers and chaperons had come in the buses, too, and they had a mind for other things. One teacher bluntly told her charges: "You can't ride a thing until you see all the serious exhibits...
...Interest. This mating system favors cross-fertilization between colonies, but is hard on bee breeders, who can never be sure that an interloper male has not outdistanced more desirable suitors. Bee men tried putting a nubile queen in a large tent with a retinue of drones. Both sexes just tried to get out. They even tethered a queen with a thread, in the hope that she would fly round & round, pursued by drones, until she was in the mating mood. This did not work either. Apparently bees will mate only when flying freely...