Word: tarpaulin
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...sleep with their jobs-gunners with their guns, drivers with their trucks and jeeps. Mosquito nets are a necessity against anopheles. It rains almost every night-weepy tropical rain that soaks into the bedrolls and seeps through tarpaulin. The nights are passed in wet chill and discomfort and the days in mud and filth that the Marines, who have been too busy fighting, have not had time to clean up. The Marines deal with filth on their clothes and bodies in the Unga River, which runs miraculously swift and clear through the occupied area. The swim in the Unga...
...should be coated with a synthetic rubber paint as a protective covering. Heavy canvas, or a similar material, may be used for the same purpose. . . . New or dismounted tires can be protected against light, air and dirt [all of which are harmful to rubber] by covering them with a tarpaulin or other heavy, tightly woven fabric. The darker the storage place the better. Heat and air have a very destructive effect on casings. Seventy or 80 degrees Fahrenheit should be the maximum storage temperature. Drafts and moving air replenish the supply of oxygen, causing the casing to deteriorate more rapidly...
...this point a lone Nazi on a motorcycle appeared at the convoy's rear. An armed guard stuck his head out from the rear lorry's tarpaulin and said: "What in hell do you want?" The Nazi tommy-gunned him. Another guard shot the Nazi...
...Professor: But what I object to most strenuously is that all week long the H.A.A. announced that the field was under a tarpaulin day and night. It almost looks like somebody tried to fool Brown and take advantage of the powerful Harvard line. Or were you trying to make sure that the Stadium grass had enough water all week...
...survivors had been adrift eight days while heavy seas broke over the boat. Six of the lifeboat's occupants were children. Hero of the group was a 21-year-old nurse, who stowed the children forward under a tarpaulin, continually massaged the chill from their bodies and told them wild adventure stories to keep them happy. Said one of the rescued children: "We didn't have breakfast any day. The first meal was lunch. Each of us got half a biscuit. Sometimes with it we got a piece of sardine, or a little bit of meat...