Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these people is clear. They must be fed, cared for and protected. Further more, anyone who wants to leave Kigali must be made free to do so. As foreigners are escorted out of Rwanda by their own military forces, native residents can only look on. Where are the tent cities, the makeshift hospitals, the guarded convoys of refugees? Though these are the lamentable bastions of civil war, they do serve a humanitarian purpose. And still, the aid of the U.N. has been missing...
...fully straighten its legs. That would have freed it from the inefficient, bowlegged stride that keeps today's chimps and gorillas from extended periods of two-legged walking. Presuming that this diminutive hominid was a female, Johanson named her Lucy. (While he was examining the first fossils in his tent, the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was playing on his tape recorder...
...read on a Dining Services "table tent" the other day that there's a "Recipes from Home" dinner or something that's coming up. I am scared to death that my mom sent in her recipe for "Weenies and Beans with Cauliflower Florets." Anxious in Adams...
Recent immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere, even those cast into the tent camps, declared fatalistically that they had no intention of moving away. On the other hand, psychologist Michael Gellert noted that many longtime residents had heard so much about the danger that they took earthquakes for granted. When the possibility became real, many were jolted out of their denial. "I used to figure that if you have a life-span of 70 years, you'll have to go through one really bad one -- three minutes of absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup...
...otherwise wouldn't take," says Blair Ruble, director of the Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies in Washington. Just who, Ruble asks, is really out there selling reform to the Russian public? He sees no one doing the job. "They've got to cajole, to bring people into the tent...