Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...direction, southern England turned into a massive arsenal and a jumping-off point. The Allies built 163 airfields -- from which 12,000 warplanes flew in support of Operation Overlord. They stockpiled 2 million tons of weapons and supplies, mountains of food and fuel. The Channel ports became sprawling tent cities housing tens of thousands of soldiers...
...March 3, 1991, under a hastily pitched tent at Safwan air base in southern Iraq, General Norman Schwarzkopf gazed across the table at two grim-faced Iraqi generals and calmly dictated cease-fire terms that put an end to the six-week Gulf War. Stunned to learn that the U.S.-led forces had captured more than 60,000 of his soldiers, Iraqi Lieut. General Sultan Hashim Ahmad al- Jabbari acceded to each and every condition. "His face went completely pale," Schwarzkopf later recounted. "He had had no concept of the magnitude of their defeat...
...favor of the ban more than those who supported the Brady Bill, because that bill only delayed ownership of handguns by five days and didn't ban them outright. Hyde, who voted for the Brady Bill, recognizes that the assault-weapons measure "is a bigger nose in a smaller tent," and he anticipates continuing static from the pro-gun forces. While there is growing concern about guns in his district, it is the other side that is galvanized to retaliate. "The N.R.A. is a master at organizing -- its intensity is amazing. The issue is as emotional...
...emissaries to the Tibetan district of Lhathok located an apple-cheeked, appropriately aged boy named Ugen Thinley, son of a shepherd named Dondup and his wife Lolaga. Local lamas reported that at his birth rainbows had appeared and conch shells sounded, and a bird alighted on his father's tent and "sang a beautiful song." The joyous news was faxed to the Dalai Lama, who affirmed the choice with his own prophetic dreams...
Texas barbecue which will take place in the Sever Quad tent from 11:30am-1:30pm...