Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officially ended two weeks ago with the collapse of the coup in Moscow and the subsequent rout of the Communist Party by reformers bearing the twin banners of democracy and Mother Russia. If it had been a hot war, some soldier might have rushed into an American general's tent, crying, "Sir, Moscow has fallen!" As it was, there was just the quiet realization that the world had changed utterly and that where East-West relations are concerned, the past was no longer prologue...
Even before the customary flocks of cars, vans and U-hauls began lining the Ivy gates, a dozen or so eager Yardlings waited anxiously nearby the official green and white striped room key tent...
...first Gorbachev and the reactionaries tried to co-opt each other. One of Gorbachev's aides, fluent in the earthy idiom of American politics, paraphrases a favorite line of Lyndon Johnson's: "Mikhail Sergeyevich felt it was better to have the camels inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. He wanted to keep them where he could see them and where they would have to take his orders. He also wanted to use them to put pressure on the Balts." That arrangement was fine with the reactionaries, since they had considerable latitude in how to interpret...
...circus folding its tent? Economics. Pan American World Airways, from which the White House charters the press plane, is under bankruptcy proceedings and is in the process of selling its assets. If Pan Am goes under, no other airline appears both willing and able to replace it as the official purveyor of 747s to the press corps. "No other airline wants to do it," says Gary Wright of the White House Travel Office. "The bottom line is the airlines don't make enough money out of it, and the p.r. value is negligible...
...from Washington to Abu Dhabi, Beaty often had to leave his room in the early morning to return calls from telephone booths. He persuaded several sources to meet him on neutral ground in Casablanca, and learned more details there while dining on fish and rice in a Bedouin's tent. Beaty came right up against the sinister underside of the story when a man from the black network invited himself into Beaty's hotel room in Abu Dhabi and threatened to kill...