Word: tarpaulin
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...crisis that announced itself discreetly, with the touchdown of a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter transport at Britain's Greenham Common air force base, 50 miles west of London. Aboard the aircraft was a tarpaulin-swathed shipment of nuclear-tipped Tomahawk cruise missiles, the first of 41 nuclear weapons systems that are scheduled to be placed in Britain, Italy and West Germany by the end of the year. Word of the shipment's arrival was broken by British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine, who made the announcement in the House of Commons to choruses of "Hear, hear!" from...
Then, magically, the rain stopped. After a three-hour delay, the yellow tarpaulin was swept off the field and the game began. For television, faced with a disruption of its prime-time schedule, it was a nuisance. For Les Expos, the season...
...opening game of the NCAA District One playoffs against Delaware. After six innings Harvard trailed 1-0 on an unearned run. It had been drizzling for the entire contest and Brown was in danger of losing his first decision of the season. The clouds burst in the seventh, the tarpaulin was brought out, and the Crimson batsmen were brooding in the dugout, on the verge of an opening round loss in a double elimination tourney...
...Nothing compares to Milt Holt's amazing last-second pass in '74 to beat the Elis, 21-16." (The post was smiling now, a distant, wet-eyed look on its tarpaulin.) "And the Dartmouth game last year was great, what with taking the Ivy League lead and all. Geez, and all the great players--McInally, Kubacki, Jiggetts, 'Endzone' Crone, Baggott, Varney...
...girl in the front row stood for the first time since the game began. All the men around her had left, and the usher beckoned noisily from the exit for everyone to leave. She stood gazing at the diamond, where the ground crew was rolling out the dull green tarpaulin to close out the night. Slowly I made my way to the first row. The arena was all ours. My heart beat harder than a Baltimore chop under my jacket. She was oblivious, still staring languidly out at the empty field...