Word: tented
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...Clearly, meaningful social exchange requires a face. And the argument that non-verbal communication is inessential only addresses half the problem. The obscured woman, who can see her interlocutor clearly through her slits, is enjoying contact with a face; it's the other party, conversing with a tiny black tent, that bears the burden of the discomfort. It would be more sincere for niqab-wearers to say that they accept the cost of refusing to compromise on the niqab; that it will be considered provocative by their non-Muslim fellow citizens, that it might slow their own assimilation into British...
...ceiling above me, and the little I can see between the windows of the coffee table. I lie, finding myself impressed with his architectural vision, until he surprises me with the blanket. The bedspread from my room is carefully spread over the couch cushions until it forms a tent over me, and this is too much. Michael, I have little patience left for you. I am finished with you, and wish you could have seen what I saw. Be grateful, TV Boy. Have respect. Have you seen the beginning of a war? Picture your neighborhood, and now see the women...
...show, the longest-serving Republican House Speaker in history explained why he would not resign despite a sex scandal that has produced a hail of questions about his leadership and the failure to stop one of his members from cyberstalking teenage congressional pages. "If I fold up my tent and leave," Dennis Hastert told her, "then where does that leave us? If the Democrats sweep, then we'd have no ability to fight back and get our message...
Students turned out in droves yesterday to the fifth annual health-awareness fair sponsored by University Health Services (UHS) yesterday, packing into a white tent in front of the Science Center to get their blood pressure checked, munch on dried fruit, and snatch up free bottle-openers. Twenty-four booths offered everything from on-the-spot health services, such as general physicals and mental health clinics, to pamphlets on responsible drinking and drug abuse to free goodies like stress balls and water bottles. “You can find out some things that you’re otherwise too lazy...
Evan: Not yet, because most of our stuff hasn’t taken off yet. We’re still just in the set-up mode, gearing up for the show this spring, HPT 159: “The Tent Commandments.” Last year we just basically handled all the transactions and credit card billing, and all the interactions with the customers...