Word: tented
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...Indian soldiers at the base drove two armored personnel carriers 300 ft. (90 m) outside. They kept 30 more carriers, tanks, jeeps and trucks in neat lines behind the razor wire and limited their interaction with the crowd to shooing them off an adjacent helipad. The refugees built tents of sticks and rags in front of the gates. "Nobody ever gets into the base," said Meshaq Shebani, 22, a roadside diesel vendor. He eyed the rows of yellow and red flowers around a spot marked vip parking next to the commander's tent. "They don't protect us. They just...
...embraced the film's realism. Bible's firm projects that the title will soar north of $150 million before it leaves theaters - making Gran Torino the biggest haul ever for an Eastwood film. By then, it may well pass the box-office totals posted last year by such summer tent poles as Mamma Mia!, The Incredible Hulk and Sex and the City. "Slumdog and The Wrestler are these Cinderella stories that have overshadowed Gran Torino, and yet here is another Cinderella story all its own," Dergarabedian says. "You look at Eastwood, and here he is directing Changeling, which got Angelina...
...very Obama-like to reach out and to cross boundaries to constituencies that didn't vote for him. Forming relationships with conservative evangelicals is a good and positive part of creating a big tent. This is a leader who isn't worried about what people think. He asked Gene Robinson to pray as well, he tapped Sharon Watkins to give the sermon at the prayer service. (See pictures of Reverend Billy Graham...
...enlightenment. Now jayo, bhaya: get out of here.”An eight-year old kid in Bodhgaya latched onto my friend and I. Chutto told us he wanted to practice his English, and he took us to his family’s one-room hut, adjacent to the tent restaurant we were eating in and showed us his schoolbooks. Then he asked us if we wouldn’t buy him a football so he could play like the other kids.He followed us to the bookstores we were heading towards clearly seeking a commission should we buy anything...
...Monday's ceremony, a long red carpet snaked along a dusty walkway from the heavily fortified front gate to a large white tent specially set up for the occasion. There, embassy personnel, Iraqi officials in suits, contractors in khakis and soldiers in fatigues milled about, munching on mini quiches and kabobs served by waiters in vests and bow ties...