Word: carpetting
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...technology gear across the country for Bekins Van Lines, they haul a little high-tech luxury for themselves in their $35,000, 120-in.-long cabin. While on the road, Robin prepares broiled chicken and fresh steamed vegetables in the kitchenette complete with a microwave oven. The thick pile carpet and acoustically padded walls are easily cleaned with the central vacuum- cleaning system. After dinner she may watch a prerecorded episode of Dallas on their VCR and remotecontrolled color TV. When 6-ft. 4-in. Dan stretches out on the double bed for a night's sleep, Robin, who quit...
...Afghanistan, the Soviet Union faces what is frequently, though simplistically, called its own Viet Nam: a made-in-Moscow clique is holed up in Kabul; caravans of Soviet-supplied armor venture forth by day into hostile hinterlands as helicopter gunships and bombers conduct a bloody pacification campaign, complete with carpet bombing. The U.S. is aiding the mujahedin rebels to the tune of many millions of dollars a year...
...bright artificial green of an Astroturf carpet covers the floor of Briggs Athletic Center, and when spring sports practices end for the day, the gym sits silent and empty...
...club, with a generous use of mahogany and brass, both in the spacious lobbies and within its two auditoriums. The seats--between 1,815 and 2,000 in the larger, depending on the configuration of the stage--are a warm shade called terra cotta, and a blue patterned carpet covers most of the floors. Given the prevailing climate in Minnesota during the concert season, the cozy warmth conveyed by the materials is not misplaced...
...delivers a sovereign account of the decline and fall of the British Empire. Slowly, painstakingly tracking its protagonists through a labyrinth of troubles, the show builds up a panoramic portrait of British India that is as levelheaded as it is evenhanded. More of an intricate tapestry than a flying carpet, Jewel dwells on the British raj in its dotage and behind its gilded scenes, at home though hardly at ease. In the process, it poignantly suggests that even the grandest of empires was made up of very small people and that no subject is more exotic than a divided heart...