Word: tarp
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Yesterday was a busy day for Agatha Okyere ’81. She was moving—packing her belongings into boxes and bags, fumbling beneath the blue tarp that guards her property...
...After they fell he came back to Kabul to join his wife and six children, and for two months they have been trying to rebuild. They sleep towards the back of the property, some in a canvas tent too hot to enter during the day, the rest under a tarp. Khalil's wife Shahnaz once worked as a teacher, but she has suffered from severe depression since her father, a civilian, was killed during the earlier Soviet war. She spends much of her time in one of Kabul's few functioning hospitals, but this morning Khalil thought he could bring...
This was the same Crockett whom Walsh had left to throw 140 pitches each of the last two weeks, the same Crockett who had struck out 17 batters while losing to the Bears on Saturday. It’s uncertain whether Crockett also single-handedly pulled the tarp over the field after the game, brought the team’s equipment back to Dillon Field House and delivered the game results to the Ivy League by hand, but it doesn’t seem impossible...
...first, the mayor's office tried to prevent the Ground Zero District from growing into a spectacle. The chain link fence surrounding the site was covered with a thick green tarp that blocked the view, and police threatened to snatch cameras. "For the first several weeks, I didn't want anyone down there. It was a very personal feeling," says Richard Sheirer, director of the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, which oversees the site. But after realizing the overwhelming demand to get a glimpse of the hole, the office reversed its policy. The tarp came down, the fences were...
...restaurant on numerous construction planks that have sprouted in the cleanup zone, which other stores also use as free billboards. Apocalyptic signage was also erected by Andrew Menschel, 58, the owner of the Dakota Roadhouse, a bar just north of the Trade Center site. Back when the green police tarp shrouded the site, Menschel scrawled advertisements for his bar all over it: OSAMA MISSED US, WHY SHOULD YOU? Some locals have scolded Menschel for trying to "make profit out of death," but business is so slow he will try anything. On a wall in the bar he pasted...