Word: tarpaulin
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Welding sparks fly behind the rows of green tarpaulin stalls in the blackened work barns. The ventilation in one building comes from flaps in the steel skin that are braced with odd pieces of wood. The interiors of most departments are dimly lit and cavernous. "Sophisticated equipment wouldn't necessarily go well here," says a senior executive. "Black-country laborers [so named because of the region's soot-grimed landscape] prefer physical effort, and if they're dirty, sweating and completely knocked out at the end of the day, they feel satisfied...
...some pasture stuck in between several larger lots of cattle range and pine tree forests. Around the trailer, which was resting on blocks, were a tractor, a car, a clothesline, some horses out in the field, some baby toys, a dog with mange, and a motor-cycle under a tarpaulin. The grass was long and wet, and once I stopped my car coupling black love bugs settled...
...play games, talk in "Ubbi-Dubbi"-a catchy code language reminiscent of past generations' pig Latin-show home movies and give laconic instructions in all manner of skills. The first show featured a filmed demonstration of how to build a raft from tree limbs, leaves and an old tarpaulin. A 41-minute karate exhibition aimed at defeating bicycle thieves was on the second. The third will include a thoroughly befuddling lesson in the game of "cat's cradle," with a perplexed young instructress tangling her string and admitting, "I got it wrong...
...field difficulty originated with the decision to cover the Harvard playing surface with a tarpaulin to protect against rain. "Instead, of course, we got snow," Harvard coach Bob Munro said. "Monday afternoon we went out and tried to get the tarp off the field. We couldn...
Since both teams play the same type of game, bad weather conditions should not give either an advantage. The varsity field was covered with a tarpaulin before Sunday's snowfall, but unless the snow melts the grounds crew will be unable to remove the trap. In that case, the game will be played on the freshman field...