Word: tented
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...With a full-size tent set up in the room and plastic bags full of oatmeal strewn all over the floor, the group packed at a leisurely pace, excited to be ending their senior year with a familiar experience...
Last summer Booker erected a tent outside one of the most violent housing projects in Newark and fasted for 10 days to get more police protection for the place. It worked; Mayor Sharpe James and the police brass were shamed into paying attention. Conrad Lindsey, 25, still lives at the complex and says Booker "changed a lot of moods in this community...
...Million Moms are blatantly using motherhood to sell their message. The march will feature a stroller parade and a family tent, so parents have a place to take young children when they get antsy during the speeches. Ann Stevens, a mother of three from Springfield, Va., says, "I told my husband that this year, instead of breakfast in bed, I want to do this for Mother's Day. I have children, and I want them to be around years from...
...feds had other reasons to go in fully loaded. INS agents, who spent a week planning the raid, had observed from 10 to 30 self-appointed bodyguards who mixed with the crowd outside at any given time. Several were camped out in a tent in the backyard of the house behind the Gonzalez home; four others, members of Alpha 66, a radical anti-Castro group, often patrolled the crowd conducting surveillance, the INS said. Record checks showed that three of the four participated in a 1995 incident in which a band of Alpha 66 members took a boat to Cuba...
This spring's knock-down, drag-out, sticks-and-stones primary between George W. Bush and John McCain had to be the most high-profile, rancorous and riveting GOP battle in most party elephants' memory. Now it's Big Tent time, with the first of several planned grip-and-grin summits between the anointed and the heretic going down Tuesday in Pittsburgh. How do these two make it convincing? "They'll start by heaping praise on one another for the press, and will genially agree to disagree on whatever they have to," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. "McCain will...