Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increased concern among women since the Supreme Court upheld the government's right to deny federal funding to family-planning clinics that mention the abortion option. Then came the disclosure of "pro- life" comments by court nominee Clarence Thomas. Last week Bush emphasized that the party is a "big tent" with room for varied views, even though its platform essentially considers abortion to be murder. "What we're saying," cracks a Bush adviser, "is that our party tent is big enough to include murderers...
...conga drums stopped rumbling at about 4:20 a.m. on July 4, with five or six hard hand cracks, then a great, cavernous quiet. A visitor, sweaty in a winter sleeping bag, half-woke in his tent, wadded what turned out to be a loaf of six-grain bread under his head as a pillow and eased back to sleep. As he did, the drums started again, more softly: chunka-chunka-CHUNKA-chunka. They stopped for good an hour later, just before full light...
...fill the seat of one of the greatest civil rights heroes, Bush found a black who actually believes in the Republican notion that minorities need the absence of discrimination, not affirmative action, in order to succeed. Thomas has pitched his political tent on a small plot of ground where black nationalism and Republican conservatism converge...
...case of rain, the huge tent bought during Harvard's 350th birthday will do part of the job. But if the rain is too aggressive, and people seek shelter, there will be large screen televisions in the Science Center and Memorial Hall, where the exercises can be watched live...
...first the tent must go up. Baker moves on this week from Damascus to < Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem to keep pushing at the obstacles that still block the peace conference. If he makes no progress, said a senior official, "I think we ought to stop flying around and decide what we do next...