Word: tarps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cabin shelters our group encountered Pan Pipe and Gourmet John and Wandering Jew II, thru-hikers trekking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. These were the more pleasant evenings. On one occasion, our FOP group had the less pleasant experience of sleeping under a plastic tarp set up on a steep hillside so that all eleven group members were hugging each other. Group bonding at its best...
...Terraza bar, which he once patronized, a bronze head of Hemingway looked to the coast, toward five young men and the sea. They crawled silently aboard a homemade raft loaded with plastic soda bottles filled with fresh water, canned condensed milk, cheese, knives and fishing equipment. A big tarp was onboard to protect them from...
...hills and across the wooden outfield fence at Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, obscuring the sign that proudly proclaims the Berkshire Medical Center the OFFICIAL HOSPITAL OF THE PITTSFIELD METS. The grounds crew, so to speak, sprang into action. There was nothing big league about it. The soot-gray tarp, patched in several places, did not cooperate with the motley squad of Mets employees in baggy shorts who gamely attempted to pin it to the ground like frenzied wrestlers...
...tarp won. Infield red clay turned to instant ooze. Game called. Ten grand or so in gate receipts and hot-dog sales down the drain. "That's life in the minor leagues," said one of the vanquished, assistant general manager Richard Lenfest, as rain ran down his legs and into his sneakers...
Social historians will please note that of the two most endearing families in American pop culture, one (the Simpsons) is yellow and chinless, and the other (the Coneheads) eats insulation and has enough scalp to tarp the Matterhorn...