Word: tented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this climactic day, the little arched stone bridge over the Thames was jammed bumper-to-bumper with Morrises, Minxes, and Jaguars. The little British Railways station was jammed; three times the normal services was provided for the throngs. And in the huge wall tent which covered the Harvard shells and served as a temporary resting place, the tension rose...
...crowds of visitors (76,324 by head count) were handled by 40 young American missionaries who first guided their charges into a green tent to watch a movie showing the spread of Mormonism through the world. Then the visitors, warned not to talk or smoke within the temple, were escorted in groups through the building (cost: $1,700,000), saved their questions to be asked later. They had plenty of questions: Why was there a telephone switchboard? Why were there locker rooms and powder rooms with Queen Anne-style dressing tables? What was the green and beige drawing room, called...
...arrived as the diplomats were gathering to carve up Viet Nam. He pitched his green tent on a patch of lawn outside the Palais des Nations. To protest the division of his homeland, he went on a hunger strike, but the diplomats purring past in their black cars paid no attention, and only blood transfusions saved Vo's life. After his recovery, Vo-a teacher in Viet Nam, where the French often jailed him for his nationalist views-wangled accreditation as a newsman, commandeered a desk in the Palais, and started his own newsletter (in French) to campaign against...
Month after month Vo worked on, an implacable, improbable figure huddled in his corner, typing out endless copy. He had no money. His appeals were stenciled on the blank sides of U.N. press releases; his lunch was carrots and lettuce. A sympathetic Swiss matron let him move his tent to her grounds. When the winter nights got too cold, he crept into a doll-house on the estate and slept with a hot-water bottle over his heart...
WHEN Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show folded its tent, when P. T. Barnum's museum closed down, when the Ziegfeld Follies put their feathers and bangles away, when the "legitimate theater" was pushed off gay, white Broadway into the dusky sidestreets of Manhattan, when the movies killed vaudeville and when the movies in turn were nearly killed by TV-each time, the gloomy mourned the past and doubted the future of show business. Yet each time, show business continued brighter, gayer, more interesting than before. Each phase of its irrepressible evolution reappeared in the next: the theater...