Word: carpetting
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...Carpet Problems...
...great intangible in today's contest may prove to be the artificial turf in Michie stadium, an unusual brand on which no Harvard player has ever set foot. The Crimson will be wearing shoes specifically designed for this carpet, but one day of practice may prove insufficient. With rain a possibility, the gridders can only try to avoid the ugly comparison with last year's 41-14 humiliation on the rainsoaked astroturf at Cornell...
...being investigated for obstructing justice, and two first cousins have been accused of following the Executive's lead in accepting diamonds from former Central African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa, French President Valerie Giscard d'Estaing nonetheless stands as perhaps the most secure of western leaders, facing a red carpet to reelection...
...unprecedented reforms from the Communist government when there was unsettling news. There had been rumors all week long, perhaps inevitably in a Communist country, that the price for Polish Leader Edward Gierek might be stiff. One version had it that his entire Politburo had been called on the red carpet to Moscow. Nonetheless, in downtown Warsaw the country's parliament assembled on schedule to discuss and ratify the government's settlement with the striking workers. Then came the first shock: a bulletin that Gierek had been stricken with a "serious heart disturbance" and was being attended by five...
...seen from the mountains of western Pakistan, Afghanistan is a desert carpet of brown and beige, smudged with dust devils rising to the sky. Up close, it is a land stubbornly clinging to its nationhood and seething with hatred for the Soviet invaders, the shuravi. Almost as soon as we boarded our first bus, at the border, we were asked a question that would be repeated everywhere we went: "What is your country?" Our reply invariably drew smiles and approving nods. "Ah, Amer-eeka. Good," they said...