Word: tented
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...history," says Barnes, "there weren't any fundamental political changes as a result. Saudi Arabia is just as anti-democratic as it was then and Iraq is more repressive than ever." Bush's mistake was compounded, says Barnes, by General Norman Schwarzkopf, who brokered the peace in a desert tent on March 3, 1991. "When Schwarzkopf allowed the Iraqis to put their helicopter gunships back in the air, he basically handed Iraq back to Hussein. Almost immediately he was able to put down insurrections in the north and the south. And when the United States refused to help, that...
Andrews, a supplies specialist who arrived in Tuzla on Christmas Eve, was sharing a drafty warehouse with about 200 men and women bedding down on green cots with shaky frames. Featuring a muddy concrete floor and diesel fumes, Building 21 is a temporary billet until tent cities are built at the base. For now, bedtime fashion consists of sweaters, wool hats, glove liners and socks. The bundling up is useful because nighttime temperatures drop below freezing, but it is not much help against drips from a leaky ceiling. Meals are still prepackaged rations of stews, mushy vegetables and dry cake...
...council also allotted $1,500 to provide a tent and music for a tailgate party at The Game, where council members will serve food to Harvard students free of charge...
...impresario of powerful, conflicting emotions, Farrakhan orchestrates pride and rage, love and hate, raising his revival tent on the twin poles of black self-reliance and white race baiting. If anyone was tempted to forget that, amid all the hopeful talk of healing and atonement--and plenty of moderate blacks who saw in the march a desperately needed chance for spiritual renewal clearly were tempted--Farrakhan made it impossible. In an interview released late last week he repeated some of his favorite calumnies against the Jews--"bloodsuckers," as he called them, who exploit blacks and "were involved in the slave...
TIPTOEING PAST THE DANK AND murk of the Manhattan neighborhood called Hell's Kitchen, you walk into a huge tent where Pomp Duck and Circumstance is performed and enter a different world. Inside the bordello-red lobby area, tuxedoed giants and midgets say hello. In an alcove, T shirts and robes with a Matisse monogram are for sale. So are the pieces of Rosenthal china on which you will dine. A bartender pours you a glass of the house Chardonnay. Nine bucks...