Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken children to an environmental hearing in Baton Rouge, and protesters of a Conoco Inc. refinery in Ponca City, Okla., set up a tent city on state capitol grounds in 1988. Two weeks ago, in one of the largest settlements of its kind, Conoco offered the families up to $27 million to relocate...
This isn't the language of a journal of opinion; it's the language of a tent revival. For the Peninsula editors, Harvard isn't a place for the pursuit of truth, but the maintenance of Truth--the defense of dogma against dissenters. Forget thinking, exploration and questioning. What this "moral wasteland" needs is a healthy dose of belief...
...work, the artist shows you both the underside of the tent and the view over its top. He reverses perspective, depicts the far end of a rug as wider than the near end. You are shown not what you expect to see, but what the artist wants...
...Formerly, among the nomads of Mali, a woman's job was to sit in her tent and demonstrate her husband's wealth through her great weight and inactivity," she said...
Atwater's "big tent" talk and Stone's new PAC are just two manifestations of a long-term strategy. "It's like perestroika," says a Bush adviser. "It takes time and hard work to change positions previously carved in stone." In other words, concedes the G.O.P. strategist, "the party is going to have to be hit over the head in the 1990 elections. Our big winners will likely be those who are pro-choice, our big losers those who are pro-life. It will take the shock of '90 before a change can really be set in motion...