Word: tented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House, this year's innovation is mercifully practical: gone are the weary hours spent waiting in line to enter the Executive Mansion. Now tourists are given time slips, and can then rest tired feet in a red-and-white striped tent on the adjacent Ellipse...
...convention. The Civil War brought ruin to many of them. Northern preachers demanded loyalty oaths from their defeated brethren, and many Southerners headed West, carrying Scriptures in their saddlebags and baptizing new converts in the creeks and cow ponds of the prairies. Out of the hellfire tradition of revival-tent meetings grew an uglier tradition of prejudice and violence. The burning crosses of the Ku Klux Klan were a grotesque perversion of Christian principles, but an image was formed. "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent," as H.L. Mencken scolded during the heyday of Klan power...
...radio station near Asmara, Ethiopia, and seized Steven Campbell, 27, a civilian technician, and another American, James Harrell, 41. The kidnapers' apparent motives: extort ransom from the U.S. and end American aid to Ethiopia. They dragged both men across 100 miles of desert in twelve days to a tent outpost. There the guerrillas held them virtually incommunicado on a diet of rice and canned vegetables...
...justice to Attila, he honestly did want to make the world safe for Huns . . . When I found out what a weak, pitiable man he really was, I felt it my duty. . . to stay around the White Tent and keep things from getting completely out of control. For I was the only moderating influence. . . I kept saying: 'All right. Kill the women, Attila. But why can't we spare children under four?' " You get the idea...
...saying: "France is a dependable friend." The next day, in a 34-minute speech before a joint session of Congress (also delivered in English), he promised that France "will continue to contribute to the effectiveness of the Atlantic Alliance of which she is a part." Later, in a tent lined with the same red cloth as a Versailles salon, he entertained the Fords at a dinner on the grounds of the French embassy...