Word: tented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keeping 'Em Out of the Tent...
...tent title of a lecture on insurance...
...that Spanish beaches are pleasanter in June and September than in midsummer. No one listens. Of France's 8,000,000 autos, 4,000,000 were on the road last week-filled with potato salad, crying children, accordion maps and cursing drivers. Seven million campers pitched their tents on 8,400 acres of camping space, and there were scarcely 4 sq. yds. per bivouacked family in Southern France. Thousands of toes were stubbed on thousands of tent pegs. Along the French Riviera the cars were bumper to bumper, and the bikinis bosom to bosom. Vacationers everywhere stood in line...
...attack on Moncada Barracks that signaled the start of his revolution against Dictator Fulgencio Batista. He was determined to put on a show for the 30 U.S. newsmen invited over to view the proceedings, and so he did. Carpenters had nailed together triple-deck bunks and thrown up small tent cities to handle the 100,000 campesinos trucked in for the occasion. Streets were hung with posters and gaily colored banners. All day and night, reported TIME Correspondent Edwin Reingold, streets were clogged with peasants in gay carnival hats, sipping a glass of beer or munching hungrily on roast...
...church stands strangely inside a clover leaf of the expressway near Florence, and serves as a spiritual halfway house for travelers. "The general form is that of a tent," explains Michelucci, who designed its sway-backed curves with architectural as well as spiritual freedom in mind. He spent hours daily on the job, changing details in concrete and carpentry...