Word: tarp
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...crowned by a crumpled piece of gold paper and flanked by old newspaper pages, flyers, and books as well as a 2003 bottle of Oz wine and some tape. A textbook entitled “Plastics Engineering Handbook: Third Edition” paid a grateful homage to the plastic tarp thrown over the table as rain protection. Flyers came from the Cambridge and Allston area, including a Banks Street crime report and an ad for the “Bottles and Cans: Allston Redemption Center...
...report of a stolen home plate led an officer to a baseball field in Allston. The officer found that, in addition to the theft, a few sand bags and a tarp had been dumped onto the field...
...want to be seen in a vehicle that looks like a Cubist sculpture: a cross between a B-2 Stealth bomber and the Batmobile. And you don't want to be seen wrestling with the roof, since it's little more than an erector set with a fabric tarp and may require an engineering degree to dismantle. If you hit 100 m.p.h., Lamborghini warns, the roof might blow off--and how embarrassing would that be, losing your...
Koenig and his brother are both carrying four to five days’ worth of food, sleeping bags, medical kits, an ultra-light tarp for camping, and some winter clothes and gear, in packs weighing between 22 and 27 pounds...
...crossfire in Darfur, however, each day brings new hardship as the population of the already resource-stretched refugee camps swells with new arrivals. The sprawling Abu Shouk camp outside of Al Fashir, home to some 52,000 displaced villagers, has begun to assume an air of permanence. Feeble tarp-and-twig shelters have been replaced by mud huts, ringed by high walls with cattle tethered inside. The camp's clinics are no longer makeshift, and a teeming market has sprouted nearby. "This is my home now," says Fadna Haroun Abdelmamout, a recent refugee from a village near Kebkabiya. In late...