Word: tarpaulin
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...behind home plate (and sheltered from the rain), for me, my little brother, and my friend Matt. Matt was late getting to our rendezvous point at the train station, but no matter--we arrived two minutes after the 12:35 matinee was scheduled to begin, only to find the tarpaulin covering the field and security guards patrolling the dugout for lack of players...
...driver refused to stop. The ensuing chase ended 15 minutes later when Rifkin, 34, obliged his pursuers by crashing into a utility pole. The troopers opened the door. They removed him from the cab. They cuffed him. And then somebody noticed the odor coming from beneath the tarpaulin in back...
Later, an inning short of the official seal, poetry struck a final time, along with lightning. Funnels of dust that some took to be divine displeasure rose up and blew across the infield, and two hours of rain flooded the tarpaulin and washed out the game. The sellout crowd of 39,008 drew back under cover and took the time to really look at the old place in the new light. The outfield wall, with its singular vines and morning glories and spider webs, was humanely spared any hardware. The stanchions peek fairly unobtrusively over the shoulders of the stadium...
...getting on the plane." The airlines know well the devastating visual impact of a damaged plane. When the fuselage of an Eastern DC-9 cracked in half during a hard landing at Pensacola, Fla., last December, injuring three, airline workers quickly concealed the carrier's name with a tarpaulin. Similarly, Aloha employees hurriedly covered their company's logo on the damaged 737 by swabbing orange paint on the tail...
...this year than it was in 1984 and 1985," laments Chief Elder Muboulle Osman, a tall, worried-looking man of about 50. "There are 72,000 people in this area, and we have no food, not even grazing for our animals. Without this," he gestures toward a long, green tarpaulin piled high with wheat flour, beans and grain, "we would starve...