Word: tented
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...outside the tent, people weren't exactly celebrating. Thousands gathered to denounce the process or demand to know why they had been excluded. After Friday prayers, protesters swarmed the streets of Baghdad calling for Muslim unity. When a U.S. Marine patrol wandered around a corner into a Baghdad street filled with worshippers spilling out of a Sunni mosque, the flashes of anger and the wrestling for power captured in a second the challenge that American forces face. WE REJECT FOREIGN CONTROL, read the banners. The sheik's sermon was a hymn to nationalism: Do not try to divide Sunni from...
Past the food tent, attendees encountered a formidable collection of carnival rides and games scattered around the Quad, most of which were of the giant, inflatable variety...
...photo, she, as the subject, lifts a white veil off her face and above her head. She is inside some sort of tent, and Christmas lights spider down behind her. She averts her eyes from the gaze of her own camera. Here, the dialogue is not a two-way conversation within the photograph, but a tripartite one among the image, its composer and the viewer...
...meantime, the Americans are trying to woo local leaders into working with them to form a provisional authority. One is Sheik Ibrahim Ata Allah al-Juburi, chief of the Juburi tribe which claims 10 million Iraqis "from Zakho to Basra," al-Jubiri said. He receives visitors in a tent erected in front of his house; the tent has ceiling fans, a telephone, a television with satellite receiver and a rectangular sectional couch measuring 100 feet. He kills three sheep a day to serve his many guests; tonight it was steaming platters of mutton, potatoes and rice...
...would not have long-term effects on the authority of American troops, as long as they kept their promises. "They are our friends and we expect them to give us democracy and security, to rebuild us and not destroy us." He said the Americans have come twice to his tent and he likes what he hears. "I have the idea that they have pure intentions, they just want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and establish security here...