Word: encampment
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...face looks down from posters, exhorting the people to put a stop to bribery: "Cast aside these vile practices. The giver is just as guilty as the receiver." Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn in an unruly plea for relief; then he let them encamp under his window. Next morning, after a sleepless night, Nehru contritely promised to explore their grievances. In 1947, after appealing to Delhi's citizens to open their doors to homeless Hindus from Pakistan, he put up more than a dozen families in his official residence. They stayed nine months...
...hundred forty-five members of the Band left Cambridge yesterday afternoon in four buses bound for the New York Y.M.C.A., where the "best in the business" will encamp for today's Columbia game...
...land the easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans in the parlor alone); but the closet space is convincingly niggardly, and the bathroom problem is enough to tempt anyone to the wide open spaces...
...Strasbourg, French Communists heard Communist Deputy André Marty deplore the big sum the French Government planned to spend on the Sixth World Scout Jamboree (30,000 Boy Scouts are scheduled to encamp on the meadows at Moisson, northwest of Paris, in mid-August). The $956,000 allocated for the meeting, said Marty, could better be spent for recreation centers. "Existentialists" with reactionary backing, he added, were trying to demoralize French youth...
...most inspired part of Shakespeare's play deals with the night before the Battle of Agincourt. It is also the most inspired sequence in the film. Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night. This shot was made at dawn, at Denham (a miniature British Hollywood) against the shuddering objection of the Technicolor expert. It is one of many things that Olivier and Cameraman Robert Krasker did with color which Technicolor tradition says must not or cannot be done...