Word: tented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unless you are novice number two, and you are not with an experienced party, your first subzero night might be spent scurrying from tent to tent in your skivies, looking for a samaritan to share a sleeping bag with...
...will race at speeds of up to 180 mph--to get a better idea of the difficulties of the race to come. It is cool and quiet on the track as it winds through the hills and gullies, copses and boulders. By the time we are back at our tent it is 4:30 a.m. In the distance, across the track, the bog still smokes...
...increase should above all remind consuming nations that high oil bills are a fact for the present, and should fortify their conservation efforts. Still, as consumers harken to Secretary Kissinger's contention that the cartel can be weakened through conservation and cooperation, the new dissent in the OPEC tent could be a faintly heartening omen...
...reasonably successful palliative up to now has been the creation of a "literacy corps" of high school graduates who spend most of their two-year military service teaching school. The corps has a program in which teachers travel with nomadic tribesmen and at each stop pitch a white school tent alongside the tribes' black goat-hair tents. The Shah also decided that each schoolchild should have a free daily glass of milk - an impossible task for the country's modest dairy industry. Even imported powdered milk would not improve the situation...
...civil demonstrations. When the city raised bus fares 30%, union leaders ordered "bus representatives" to take over fare collections on commuter buses at the old rates, thereby forcing the increase down to a lower, more acceptable rate. In Borgo Vittorio, a working-class quarter, residents lined up at a tent pitched under a wall covered with anti- American slogans - NO TO ROCKEFELLER-CIA-AUSTERITY - to have electric bills reduced...