Word: tented
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Mohammed Najjar, 27, cleans the mud floor of his tent, one of three dozen pitched along Rafah's main street. It has been his home since last month, when Israeli troops bulldozed his house in Block O, the section of the refugee camp next to Termite. With a rake, Najjar gathers cigarette butts and candy wrappers swept into the tent by the downpour of the past few hours. "It's cold in here, isn't it?" he says...
...dawn, Raviv brushes the outpost's floor to remove cigarette butts, spent machine-gun cartridges and the dirt that has blown in through the rifle slits. Not far away, Najjar will be raking out his tent after another night. In Rafah they sweep up the intifadeh's filth and wait for more grime to fall on them...
...recent outbreak of stomach sickness among Dunster and Mather House residents serves as an important reminder of how dependent we undergraduates are on Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) for our daily meals. Complain though we may about the hokey table tent slogans and the persistent tri-weekly presence on our dinner menu of such culinary atrocities as General Wong’s Chicken, habit and our mandatory $3,792 a year unlimited meal plan continue to drive us day after day into the hallowed halls of HUDS. Yet House dining in its present form is costly, inefficient, restrictive...
...start he demonstrated extraordinary leadership. As he led the three Sherpas and seven Swiss climbers toward the South Col at 7,925 m, they were stopped by savage winds and forced to bivouac 153 m below the day's goal. Tashi Tenzing writes, "My grandfather stayed in the Sherpa tent to keep them company. He managed to cook some soup and the Swiss were incredulous when, roped to keep himself from being blown off the face, he appeared at their tent with hot food and drink." The next morning, Tenzing Norgay's three exhausted and frightened Sherpa companions refused...
...unmet in the future through wage erosion and stagnation. The necessity of such protection from wage erosion is clear. It is at the heart of the “living wage” idea that great many who turned Harvard Yard into a “tent city” last spring have been educating the University about for several years...