Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just 35 miles east of downtown Houston, between Interstate 90 and the San Jacinto River, a hand-lettered sign at the entrance to a state campground reads WELCOME TO TENT CITY, U.S.A. Inside, 100 people have set up housekeeping in tents, cars, campers and trucks. Some have been there for as long as eight months, some stay only a few days. Some are from out of state, but most are former blue-collar workers from the Houston area. Says Jana Williams, 27, who has lived there six months with her husband and ten-month-old baby: "Vigilante groups called...
...they are also on the map. Three weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal described the scene in a front-page article on the migration of the Northern unemployed to the Sunbelt. Ever since, Tent City's residents, both entertained and irritated, have seen a steady procession of reporters and cameramen pursuing footage and recession-style quotes. The three national TV networks carried stories. "We've had so many reporters out here," says J.D. Dunn, an unemployed construction superintendent from Livingston, Texas, who says he has just landed a job servicing local sewaging plants, "we just...
...Shakespeare and then of any poetry he could find. He also began to exhibit signs of manic depression. Both aspects showed in his pursuit of a poetic career; in 1937 he journeyed to Vanderbilt University outside Nashville to visit his idol, Allen Tate. He pitched a tent on the poet's lawn for three months...
Brown Hillel's holiday succath, a tent-like structure built by Jews every year as part of the fall holiday of Succoth, was destroyed by vandals early Friday morning or late Thursday night, Hillel director Howard Winneman said yesterday...
...four, all independent-minded women of Irish descent who wear civilian clothes and have unquestionably been somewhat at odds with the parish's predominantly French Canadian clergy, decided to fight. "I won't quietly fold my tent and go away," snapped Sister Catherine. Under the contracts that they had signed along with the lay teachers, the nuns insisted, they were entitled to an explanation of the charges and a public hearing before the parish school board...