Word: tarpaulin
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Greatest threat to his enterprise was a "maboob" (sandstorm) which blasted Khartoum three days before the eclipse. But the maboob subsided well before E-day, and Dr. van Biesbroeck got two good pictures of the starfield beyond the blacked-out sun. Then he wrapped his telescope in tarpaulin and flew back to Wisconsin. His precious plates, 17 inches square, never left his side for a moment...
...August Dr. van Biesbroeck returned to the Sudan. Khartoum had not changed; the same caravans of groaning camels kicked up dust from the desert. But the brilliant stars in the desert sky had, he was sure, changed slightly. He unwrapped his telescope, chasing a dozen lizards out of the tarpaulin. Waiting five days for a night of good "seeing," he photographed the starfield in Aquarius where the sun had been six months before. Then back he flew to Wisconsin to start his long computations...
...Square. It was from the house of a widow with four children, and the kitchen, where the fire had started, was gutted. There was a tremendous hole in the roof, and it had been alternately raining and snowing for days. The firemen brought the blaze under control, nailed a tarpaulin over the hole, cleared away the debris, and before they left, one of them remembered to wish the widow a Merry Christmas...
West Frankfort was not listening to the sound of argument. On Christmas Eve, 1951, it devoted itself to the dead, who waited on tarpaulin sheets on the floor of the junior high-school gymnasium, to be recognized and bidden farewell...
...field comes to a crown in the center and the water flows off into ditches at the side of the Stadium. But despite the crown, the field still has to be covered with tarpaulin when rain falls...