Word: tarpaulins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
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...