Word: tented
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...shadow of the Basilica of the Annunciation - the site where the Angel Gabriel is said to have appeared to Mary - over the objections of local Christians and the Vatican, and tensions may be inflamed by the fact that the local Muslim community has decided to use their temporary tent-mosque on the site during the pontiff's visit to the town...
...compassionate, big-tent Republicanism on which Bush campaigned for months became threatening to him when the tent started filling up with pro-McCain independents. So he called on the right wing of his party to guard the doors of the tent, warning that Democrats were conspiring to hijack the primary. The man who prides himself on being "a uniter, not a divider" won by pitting social conservatives against moderates. He kicked off his South Carolina assault at Bob Jones University, a place where interracial dating is officially prohibited. He all but told listeners on Christian radio that openly gay people...
...want to, says Dr. Alan Matarasso, a New York City plastic surgeon. With globalization, he predicts, the new beauty ideal will evolve from blond, blue-eyed Nordic to a darker skin look that's a more heterogeneous blend. When more of the population can fit under the beauty tent, we won't feel so compelled to change our looks. That will be the most potent beauty pill...
...York were out in full force. One could detect a new spring in the step of many a clotheshorse as women rushed through the slush in their Prada heels for front seats at the fall 2000 shows. The Oscar de la Renta show, held in the main tent in Bryant Park, took center stage. De la Renta revealed a cutting edge collection of sable-trimmed vests and miniskirts in suede or leather, ball dresses and snakeskin shirts...
...trainee's Army is like a poor, proud family - all patched-up hand-me-downs and secondhand roses. Nearly everything we touch - our tent, our gas mask, our sleeping bag and our M-16 A2 semiautomatic - is merely gear, to be returned in the same worn, perforated, dinged-up condition it was issued...