Word: tarpaulin
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...Affluent families put on more elaborate wakes, building giant cylindrical tarpaulin tents in their gardens, where for three days visitors paid their condolences and ate hearty meals. The atmosphere was somber, punctuated by haunting lamentations performed by "adadas," or professional mourners: at a 2004 wake in Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood, I saw a group of old women in black abayas sing threnodies for four hours, egged on by an uncle of the deceased, who said, "Keep crying, I'll pay you more." (The going rate for a group of addadas was $150 per day, plus tips...
...offer is too low. Sometimes there's a bit of to-and-fro in the bidding, such as on a freezer chest that eventually fetches $620. But often any bid will do. A chair goes for a buck. A tarpaulin, a wheelbarrow, a birdcage, a garden sprayer and a chainsaw that doesn't work each fetch a pittance-but for the owners, the point is they're gone. Bidders have traveled as far as 25 km on the hunt for a bargain...
...like tree roots. Around her, lying in other cavities in the sharp rock and covered by volcanic ash, are the resting places of more human bones, all arranged in different positions of repose. Bats wheel above on the wind, which rushes through the coconut palms and sets the blue tarpaulin covering the graves flapping - a humble covering for one of the most important archaeological finds the South Pacific has yet seen...
...though, to make the experience worthwhile. It sounds clichéd, but JV baseball really teaches you crucial life lessons. Where else could one perfect the essential art of covering the infield? We may not have won a lot of games, but we sure got the best of that tarpaulin. Our grounds crew experience is perhaps the one edge we hold over the varsity in baseball-related activities. The speed with which we blanketed the dirt as the raindrops began to fall last Saturday marks, I’m sure, the all-time Harvard record. You may not find...
...victory from its tenth championship in 14 World Series. A minor league drifter who once was essentially traded for himself, Landrum took over during the National League play-offs for Rookie Left Fielder Vince Coleman, stealer of 110 bases, who was gobbled up by an accidentally loosed automatic tarpaulin. Dusty Rhodes and Gene Tenace may have been unlikely World Series heroes in their day, but fate never rolled out a green carpet for anyone before. "When I stepped into the batter's box," said Landrum, who observed his 31st birthday on the Series' second off day, "I looked...