Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crall raced into a tent to wake Karen Varner, and Nelson wrapped his arms around Ruff as trees fell around them and hot ash rained down. Said Nelson: "We were buried. Then Sue and I started digging our way out of the ash, which was so hot that it burned our hands. Our mouths were full of mud. I told Sue we were going to die, and she said, 'Nonsense.' " As they crawled out from under the trees and ash, they began to gag from the gases in the air and had to cover their mouths with their...
...half past one, and after lunch (considerably more protesters opt for hotdogs and Coke than the mashed bean and sprout spread the Clamshell food tent is dishing out), the main body heads out through the woods to the field. Like old European battles, both sides have the decency to wait for the other to prepare--more police arrive by the minute. On signal, the demonstrators hook one section of fence and pull, and glory be to God it comes down, allowing access to a twenty-by-thirty foot storage yard surrounded by another fence. Before the demonstrators can claim this...
...sudden influx forced Florida Governor Bob Graham to declare a state of emergency in Monroe and Dade counties-the area stretching from Key West to Miami-and led the U.S. Government to start airlifting refugees from Key West to Eglin Air Force Base in northwest Florida. There a makeshift tent city that will eventually be capable of housing 10,000 refugees was under construction...
...members of their families. It was 18 miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered craft; dejected skippers passing the waiting hours with poker games and the Cuban favorite, dominoes. To provide for the boatmen's diminishing supplies, the port had set up floating stores with exorbitant prices: a take-out chicken dinner cost $30, a bottle of Scotch...
...play opens with Zuss and Nickles, actors in a preternatural traveling circus who sell balloons and peanuts between performances. Casting themselves as God and Satan, the two plan a dramatization of the Book of Job, conjuring up their own world right there in the circus tent and using an unsuspecting J.B. in the role of the lucky man who has everything he cherishes--family, money, health, happiness--destroyed as a test of his faith in God's goodness. From a high platform, the two look down on J.B. and his exuberant household and plot the tragedies that will befall...