Word: tented
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...Number of Boy Scouts of America leaders electrocuted while setting up a tent near power lines during a scout meeting in Virginia last week...
After navigating a traffic stop and a dizzying maze of barricades and consulting a half-dozen burly but friendly security guards, I finally found my way to the press tent at the foot of the red carpet to pick up my credential. The staffer begrudgingly handed it over; I don’t think she was expecting any profusely sweating eighteen-year-olds...
Pondering this resilience of the capitalist system, I encounter, inside the Selfridges department store, an Arab-themed café offering its customers a “Bedouin” experience: on colorful cushions in a tent-like structure, young women surrounded by their shopping bags smoke hookah pipes. At this most superficial of levels, the commercial complex is able to combine Islamic and Western elements without any of the problems which crease the brows of the country’s politicians. Appearing on the BBC, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, and Jack Straw, the foreign minister, anxiously stress that...
...Accommodation is in three safari tents just outside Titjikala, 120 km south of Alice Springs, along a dirt track. Each luxury tent has a shaded veranda?the ideal place to enjoy a drink and watch the sun set over the Simpson Desert. The bathroom is a corrugated-iron extension at the rear of the tent, and features a stylish, freestanding bathtub open to the sky. Excursions include visits to rock art and fossil sites and to Chambers Pillar, a sandstone monolith 40 km away. There are also hunting tours, where tribal elders instruct you in the gathering of "bush tucker...
...autobiography and World War II documentary, struggle to come to terms with the raw human realities of war: "The experience of killing and getting killed." Collected Poems 1943-2004 By Richard Wilbur Unlike his artsier colleagues, Wilbur isn't afraid to bust a rhyme or two, and his tent is a big one: this volume includes children's poems and even show tunes. Always charming, Wilbur is a consoler, not a wallower, who offers those rare and most unfashionable commodities, beauty and pleasure...