Word: tented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea. It took John a while to get used to what he called "notoriety." And Eighth Army brass, worrying over the possibility of his capture by the Communists, tried hard to keep his frontline whereabouts a secret. On Election Day, John listened to the returns by radio in his tent. Three months later, John was on hand to see his father inaugurated as President of the U.S.-by special order, at first unknown to Ike, of outgoing Commander-in-Chief Harry Truman...
...days before they were due to cast primary ballots in a special election to pick Joe McCarthy's Senate successor, Wisconsin voters got some eleventh-hour advice from the influential (circ. 354,879) Milwaukee Journal. The Journal front-paged a cartoon of a circus tent and six sideshows, dubbed them former Governor Walter J. (for Jodok) Kohler Jr. and his six G.O.P. opponents. Warned the caption: "Don't be taken in by the sideshows." The voters weren't. In an election where total returns were slimmed to 460,000 (out of 2,200,000 eligibles) by summer...
Tastefully toppered for the Epsom Derby, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ignored with statesmanlike restraint an infield dotted with an "American" striptease tent, a rock-'n'-roll band and a "Beautiful Slave Girl in the Grip of a Fifteen-Foot Deadly Reptile," watched with reserve as Crepello, the favorite, galloped home free (see SPORT...
...Navyman with the mumps stared blearily at a Japanese magazine and started seeing things. To Lieut. Commander Bryant W. Line, who does not read Japanese, the stylized dabs and curlicues of the brushwork characters, known as Kanji, conjured up all manner of fanciful situations: poker players in a pup tent, an irate baseball umpire, a boy peering wistfully into a saloon...
Opening night of the crusade netted 704 decisions for Christ-a record for the start of any Graham campaign in the U.S. The first week brought 2,613 to the Inquiry Tent. "It takes us about two weeks to get established in a city," says Billy. "Then more and more people begin to come. And the thing that brings them isn't the preaching. It's the fact that all through the city more and more people are going to be hearing from people who have found God here in the Garden. And people want God. So they...