Word: boulderer
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...state, but he won the election by two to one. In Congress, he plumped for an import tax on copper, fought against Boulder Dam because he thought it discriminated against Arizona water interests. He won his reputation as a determined foe of Government spending. A nominal Democrat, he often hurdled party lines to vote with the G.O.P., tangled violently with tough old Speaker Jack Garner...
...paint a likeness. You have to paint him as he is." A plucked rooster, obscenely huge, lying dead and surrounded by columns of a Lilliputian army, symbolized the Death and Funeral of Cain. Our Image, a forceful study of a giant with its hands outstretched, sported a brachycephalic boulder for a head...
...cabin had been the cliff itself. Dazed and half-starved, he spends only one night at home, returns the next morning determined to find Seraphin, whose voice he had heard after the landslide. When the superstitious mountain men refuse to go with him, he crazily attacks the boulder-strewn waste with pick and shovel, is brought back to sanity only by the courage and understanding of his wife who has followed him up the mountainside...
...next day it was Boulder Dam (nobody called it Hoover Dam) and that night it was the high spots in Las Vegas. Jake Goeltz nicked the dollar slot machines for two jackpots. He walked out of there with $308. Then in Hollywood there was a tour out to see the movie stars' homes, and a big free-drink party by the Los Angeles Teamsters' Joint Council, and a nightclub jaunt to Earl Carroll's place, and the Biltmore Bowl. Some of the boys had to borrow coats and ties from the waiters before they...
Aftereffect. In Oakland, Calif., motorist James Wallace swerved to avoid one auto, sideswiped another, crashed through a heavy guard rail, careened down a 200-ft. embankment, landed in a tree, still unhurt climbed out and surveyed the damage, was conked on the head and knocked out by a falling boulder...