1. An infant, just born under a green canvas tent, wailing her way into the world. 2. Bullets had pierced several holes in the side of the canvas tent that faced the Gaza Strip. 3. But Muslim activists occupied the land in the dead of night and have erected a large green canvas tent where they hold daily prayer services. 4. Her mother, Sadia, comforted her daughter Thursday in the cool shade of a green canvas tent in the emergency room of the makeshift hospital. 5. He was standing amid long rows of white canvas tents. 6. I peered from beneath the quilts that I shared with my older sister and saw my mother lift the flap of our canvas tent. 7. Sitting under his canvas tent, Abdullah paid most of these stories little heed, and seemed resigned to fight a war without end. 8. The blind and withered cleric sat cross-legged on dirty carpets, in a canvas tent far from the grand palaces and mosques of official Saudi Arabia. 9. The canvas tents of once quiet campgrounds have given way to seas of fiberglass, flickering televisions, and ringing telephones. 10. The cause remains a mystery, but once the fire started, flames spread quickly up the canvas tent, fueled by its paraffin waterproofing. |