Word: tented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turmoil in a Tent. In another tent, a P.W. stood his ground for almost four hours. The Swiss and the Swede kept asking him if he wanted to leave, but the P.W. seemed quite happy to stay. The Communist explainer moved halfway round his table, and threatened the P.W. The Swiss wagged his finger in the explainer's face, and cried, "You shut up. You shut up." The Poles and Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper...
...last July Davo thought he had Kimathi cornered in a tent made of bamboo and skins in an Aberdare bamboo forest. Accepting help for once, he led a charge of African riflemen into the tent. A burst of submachine-gun fire caught him in the belly and the shoulder. Keeping on his feet only long enough to club his Mau Mau assailant (who was not Kimathi) to death, Davo fell to the ground. He was rushed from the jungle to a hospital in Nairobi...
Next day the first of some 400 P.W.s sloughed through Panmunjom's red, viscous mud to the explanation tents, chanting "Death to Communism!" The first P.W. balked at his tent, fear taut in every line of his body, and cried: "No! No! I will not go!" He struggled with three Indian guards, and all four burst into the tent. "Please sit down," said the North Korean explainer. The P.W. swore at the explainer in hoarse, rasping Korean: "You are a pig and a dog and a descendant of pigs and dogs." He kicked at the explainer's table...
...explainer spoke for 50 minutes of the terror in the compounds, the good food and friendship that awaited the P.W. at home, while a bunch of Communists chattered happily outside the tent in the belief they had got their man. The P.W. did not say a word. Then, when Indian guards relaxed their hold, the P.W. remarked, almost casually: "You are wasting your time." and threw himself at the explainer. The P.W. was taken back to his compound, shouting, "Communist son of a whore," but he was also laughing...
...three hours, the explainers picked on one P.W. and put him through what the U.N. called a "cruel and inhuman ordeal." Seventeen times the P.W. tried to leave the tent, but was induced to return. Seven times the U.N. observer protested, often with Swiss and Swedish support; the Indian chairman denied the appeal. But Indian General Thimayya heard what was going on and hurried over to the tent. He listened, then led the P.W. out by the hand, while the explainers shouted, "Come back, come back." The third day's count: explanations, 430; conversions...