Word: tented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night, they slept roped to the side of the mountain, inside a Harding-designed hammock-tent that was suspended from several pitons. They usually climbed from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m., and during the entire ordeal found only three ledges wide enough to stand on. There were two falls during the ascent: Harding cut his hands and legs after a piton gave way; Caldwell took a similar spill, "slithering down like a ride in an amusement park." Both men were in good condition...
...warring minorities with no Real, Silent, Middle America, Conservative, Centrist, Liberal or other kind of majority presently operative. There is increasing evidence that the first principle of the old politics, embodied in Roosevelt's New Deal, of putting many different groups, races, religions and regions under one permanent party tent may not work any more...
Eames showed two films and a slide-tape recording as illustrations of a new way of understanding art. Slides of calliope pipes, wagon wheels, tent stakes, to the accompaniment of circus music and tigers' eyes played on three screens as an alternative to a more conventional circus film. At the end of the presentation, Eames showed Tops, the classic film of children's toys which he and his wife Ray produced...
...home at Manshiet al Bakri, a waiting physician ordered an oxygen tent and summoned three specialists for consultation. The diagnosis: massive coronary thrombosis...
When Martin Luther King was murdered, whites burned crosses at Cam Ranh Bay and flew Confederate flags over bases at Danang. After appearing on the cover of Time for the story of "The Negro in Vietnam," Army Airborne Sgt. Clide Brown found a cross burning outside his tent...