Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left in storage over the summer: more lamps, more blue jeans, boots, bicycles, one unused thesaurus donated by an out-of-date uncle .. . And now, from any reopening dormitory window on any campus from Chapel Hill to Santa Cruz, can be heard the thrumming, insistent sound of the contemporary tent sound of the contemporary campus: Tattoo You . . . Vacation ...Hold...
...Tunisia, President Habib Bourguiba welcomed a contingent of 1,100 Palestinians who arrived Saturday by sea. The Tunisians had been busy last week erecting a tent village near Béja, 60 miles from Tunis, for the guerrillas. They were also refurbishing the Salwa Hotel at Borj Cedria, 16 miles southeast of the Tunisian capital, so that the tourist resort might serve as either a temporary or permanent headquarters for Yasser Arafat and 100 or more of his colleagues. The hotel contains a luxury suite for Arafat, a not altogether appropriate residence for a man of spartan taste who sometimes...
Cooney began to work for his $10 million in toasty Palm Springs, Calif, (to simulate the dry, hot climate of Las Vegas), under a gleaming white tent pitched behind the Canyon Hotel. At suppertime the parking lot was still steaming. The challenger appeared for his ring work every evening at 5 o'clock, to a tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used...
Following the workouts under the white tent, pretty girls and children queued up to sit on Cooney's broad lap and have their pictures taken with the bent-nosed Santa Claus. This silly sweet scene every day galled Hilly but delighted Cooney. "Little kids are the best part of being a celebrity," he said, bouncing a squirmy set of twin babies. "What good is this doing us?" Hilly fumed. As for the pretty girls, Cooney, a bachelor, regretfully subscribes to the boxing axiom that women have ruined more men than war and pestilence. He talks daily by telephone...
...complete was his transformation that he often manned a broom and swept out the large green-and-yellow revival tent in the church compound. Says Elder James DeGolyer: "It was very surprising to see him being such a serving kind of person, so willing to take guidance from people younger than himself...