Word: tented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also, if the weather turns bad, the seniors and their relatives will have to pack into the courts and under the tent. "If you think what you heard about last year was bad," Koivumaki said yesterday, "you should have heard about the year it rained...
...Harvard will erect a tent with capacity for 400 people outside Palmer-Dixon, which holds 1200. Last year 2650 people attended the clambake, and, because there seemed to be a "psychological barrier" to going outside and eating, many had to wait while the first arrivals ate their lobster or roast beef dinners, Koivumaki said...
Koivumaki predicted the tent would not only shelter more people but also draw others outside. "It will show them," he said, "that there was a designated place outside" to eat. Last year, without this, people were loath to go outside, although it was "hotter than hell" in Palmer-Dixon, Koivumaki said...
...state's Public Service Co. of two 1.15 million-kilowatt nuclear reactors near Seabrook. Last week they took their protests into the streets. With the precision of a well-trained army, some 2,000 protesters, carrying backpacks and water bottles, occupied the construction site and set up a tent city in an attempt to halt permanently the oft-delayed project...
...thumbed through the journals the family kept during the first few rainy months there, when they were living in a sodden tent. Silly phrases, children's art work and Harriet's more sophisticated doodles interrupted the more serious accounts of battles with county officials and with the coast guard. Local bureaucrats had tried to halt construction in the valley, had subpoenaed the residents because they did not use electricity, had withdrawn permits because the group was building with recycled wood and had tried to arrest them without even looking at their blueprints for sanitary and ecological compost privy structures...