Word: tarp
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...There's no question about whom the villagers blame for their distress. At a refugee camp in a local outdoor market, where more than 2,000 people live in converted, tarp-covered stalls amid goats grazing contentedly on piles of garbage, graffiti makes their target clear: "Lapindo terrorist," one reads. The company provides food for everyone in the camp, along with services such as a medical clinic and a makeshift mosque. But the villagers are quick to recite a litany of complaints, from the quality of the rations to the health effects of the mud (though the government team says...
...shelter to avoid Allied bombs. In the tough economic times after the war's end, the surrounding Alps became Brabeck's playground. By age 10, he was climbing with ropes. As a teenager, he took off for hiking trips with his friend Hans Thomassen, with little more than a tarp and his mother's sandwiches. She recalls that "he was always an adventurer, just like his father"--a salesman for an oil company. Indeed, along with mountaineering, Brabeck today enjoys glacier hopping in a Piper plane with high wings and retractable skis...
...Want to F*ck you Like an Animal: Receipts for: Nine Inch Nails CD, pony rental, sheep rental, tarp rental...
Heading toward the main building to interview witnesses, we observed a chilling landscape. Ambulances and emergency vehicles lined most of Avenida Washington Luís. Directly below us on the street, rescue workers had spread a huge tarp yellow tarp and covered it with empty body bags and back boards, anticipating the toll to come...
...approached the plate, the rain began to fall and within just a few minutes the tarp was dragged out over the field and the Big Green coach was calling to her team to “pack it up and head home...