Word: tented
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Fame does not cure berylliosis. Tuberculosis attacked Dr. Gardner's poisoned lungs. He spent most of his time in Vallejo Community Hospital, often under an oxygen tent. Even when feeling his best, he was forbidden by the doctors to lift his newborn daughter Claire, now two years old. But he kept a microscope near his bed and worked on his meson research whenever he had enough strength. During his final hours under an oxygen tent, knowing that death would no longer be denied, he worked with pencil and notebook, painfully gleaning his brain while he still had time...
Love still pitches his tent of light among...
...strolling player-or was he a wandering minstrel, or even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...
...Headquarters Ranch near Kingsville to see how much his bulls would actually bring in an open market. Up for sale went 29 of his best young Santa Gertrudis bulls. To Kleberg's surprise, some 500 ranchers from all over the Southwest swarmed into the flapping brown auction tent, braving a chill Texas "Norther." The bidding was even more surprising. The first bull went for $1,450, the next for $1,575; one fine bull brought the top price of $10,000. In all, the 29 bulls brought an average price of $3,411, for a thumping total...
...desert prince sharing his accumulated wisdom with his subjects (he loved the Sahara and the tradition-ruled life of its people). He is a benevolent despot, brave, warlike, just and unsentimental, the kind of man with whom T. E. Lawrence would have been proud to share a tent...