Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because there is no centralized location, the student activity fair traditionally held in a tent behind Memorial Hall will not take place, said Michelle Hewitt, assistant to the Dean of Students...
...Huddled together under a drab army tent, six Cuban refugees trade fantasies about an uprising to liberate the detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, where they have been imprisoned for the past four months. They couldn't know that later in the week, 1,000 Cubans at a detention camp in Panama would riot, and that before it was over, more than 220 American soldiers would be injured and 19 Cubans hospitalized. That was at a camp with only about 8,500 refugees; at Guantanamo there are 22,500, making it potentially even more explosive...
Beside a dusty, rural road in the eastern Transvaal, six families of black farmers gathered two weeks ago under a thorn tree to celebrate their return to their ancestral lands. A hand-lettered cardboard sign hanging on a frayed tent nearby read Ra Boile Gae in Pedi, a language spoken in the north of the country, and Home Sweet Home in English. Pedis are the largest of the northern Sotho groups, and these jubilant returnees were members of a community that had lived and farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years. They tilled the fertile soil and earned...
...remote meadow in northern Michigan, inside a large tent heated by a wood stove, 50 white men dressed in combat gear and wielding rifles talk about the insanity of the outside world. The men, civilians all, see threats everywhere. There are reports of foreign soldiers hiding in salt mines under Detroit, some of the men say. Others speak of secret markings on highway signs meant to guide conquering armies. The men's voices subside as "General" Norman Olson, a Baptist minister, gun-shop owner and militia leader, enters the tent. He tells the men they are the shock troops...
What the Democratic Party needs to realize, before it is too late, is that where Republicans have a "big tent," they have a hanger--if they'll only use it. Democrats have stood fast for civil rights, the disadvantaged and the working man and woman...