Word: blacksmith
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...shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat, thick-knit build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked somewhat in the manner of a blacksmith-a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...
Cold Dawn. In the Republican dawn, Ohio's Congressman Clarence J. Brown, campaign director, crowed: "We will open with a prayer and close with a probe." But Joe Martin, the blacksmith's son, approached the New Day with a little more caution...
...born, according to conflicting versions, on March 6, May 7 or May 25, 1892, the son of Franjo Broz, a Croat blacksmith, and his wife Maria. He was christened Josip at the Kmrovec Catholic church, and entered the parish school. According to some authorities, Tito was "a bad, violent schoolboy," who soon left his father's house, became a locksmith's apprentice...
...Rayner, the 62-year-old blacksmith of Carlton-in-Coverdale, was tired. All day he had tracked the killer who prowled the crags and moors of the North Riding; in ten days the victims numbered...
Like everything else he got, Ernie Breech earned his reputation. As a boy, he earned the right to play after-school baseball by rimming wagon wheels at his father's blacksmith shop in Lebanon, Mo. Later he earned his way through college...