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Word: tented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drizzle has stopped. We go back to the van, but the lady says our tickets still haven't arrived. She asks us if we'd like to wait in NBC's VIP tent since we have had to wait so long. The drizzle is back. We accept...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: A New Beginning | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...tent provides one wonder after another. Maury Wills is there. "Mom look, there's Maury Wills." At one end of the tent two chefs cook omelettes to order, and sausages, bagels, bacon, English muffins and fruits are piled all round them. The rain and the waiting has made me hungry. The chef flips a free omelette...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: A New Beginning | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...presence of the defendants' lawyers. The case finally hinged on the singular is sue central to nearly every rape prosecution: the victim's degree of resistance. The case posed special problems for the prosecution because Anna had voluntarily accompanied some of the boys to their surfside tent - and smoked marijuana with them - before the attacks began. The prosecutor asked, "How much torture must a woman endure before she is believed?": But Anna's imprudence was apparently enough to stir a shadow of doubt in the jurors' minds. After deliberating for only five hours, they found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: I Feel Sorry for Hawaii | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

When Eva becomes terminally ill. David convinces her they should travel around the country to visit their children and grandchildren. Eventually, Eva's worsening condition forces them to pitch tent in San Francisco with their granddaughter Jeannie (Brooke Adams...

Author: By Don ANTHONY Summa, | Title: An Honest Translation | 3/20/1981 | See Source »

Down on Memorial Drive, in the parking lot of an abandoned plant store, they're saving souls. Reverend Ezra has set up a tent, and in the heat of the evening he's hard at the work of the Lord. The members of his flock fan themselves with their programs, but he's just warming up. Finishing the call to worship, he launches into his sermon with a great whirling of arms and stamping of feet. It's a story of good men gone bad and bad men gone good, and others who stayed that way. The drug dealer with...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The City in the Off Season | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

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