Word: tente
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With the British trapped in Boston, Cambridge became the cork on the bottle. Thousands of colonials poured into the town, sending Harvard to Concord so the College buildings could be used as barracks. But most of the soldiers slept in tents, a sight Emerson described: "Who would have thought, 12 months past, that all Cambridge would be covered with American camps and cut up into forts and entrenchments?... It is very diverting to walk among the camps. They are as different in forms as the owners are in their dress, every tent a portraiture of the temper and tastes...
...every six new refugees have failed to find employment. Says Lucas Perez, 32, a welder who came to the U.S. a month ago: "I've gone through two pairs of shoes looking for work. There is none." Adds Hilda Lisa, 29, watching over two children in the tent city, while her husband looks for work as an electrician: "We had been dreaming of getting out of Cuba for years. And now we are here-no jobs, no housing, nothing...
...Cuban boat people have been placed with sponsors, many are stacked in crowded matchbox dwellings in Little Havana with distant relatives who have agreed reluctantly to let them stay for a while. Some 750 Cubans live in Campamento del Rio (River Camp), a group of Army squad tents nestled under the elevated highway Interstate 95. People wash at spigots; laundry flutters from wire fences; young, bare-chested men wander morosely among the tents. An ominous new note: the residents of the tent city include not only refugees who have been unable to find a home but some who lived with...
After appearing in some tent-show musicals, Larry joined his mother in the London production of South Pacific. A European tour in the Air Force followed. Along the way, Larry met Maj (pronounced My), a Swedish designer then living in England. "She thought I was the crassest jerk she had ever met in her life," he says. But Haggam who had a littie of J.R.'s way with women even then, wisely let a little time pass, then asked her out-on his Vespa scooter. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last December in the company of their...
...Dreyfus, a Ph.D. in communications: "I'd give him an A if he were in my class." That was the mark generally awarded Reagan, even on a bipartisan basis. Said Theodore Sorensen, who helped draft John Kennedy's 1960 Inaugural Address: "Reagan tried to make the tent he was constructing large enough to hold a significant portion of the population, and I think he did it." Iowa's G.O.P. Governor Robert Ray, who has been cool to Reagan in the past, called the address "dynamite. He touched the soul of America...