Word: grubber
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...timers never even knew he existed. He was a "novelty salesman," a euphemism for a dollar-grubber who would sell virtually anything, even if it was a little hot. He peddled cigars, janitorial supplies, calendars, and, says his brother Hyman by way of explaining Jack's innate patriotism, "things like statues of General MacArthur and others of national interest...
...well as "diamonds-in-the-rough," the Dean has looked for students with exceptional "character" qualities. In the booklet sent to all applicants, the Admissions Office writes that "the obsessive grade-grubber, the person who is afraid of life, and the arrogant or precious intellectual are not likely to profit greatly here...
...more primitive mercy than the King's justice awaited him. The "blackfellows" regarded white men as the returned ghosts of their own tribesmen. As a ghost, Graham was welcomed into a tribe, claimed as a husband by a lubra (squaw) and became a hunter of goanna lizard, a grubber for grubs. Author Gibbings' narrative suggests that to a lively Irishman this simple life was simply and literally a bore. Eventually, Graham gave himself up to "the authorities." But after he was back in irons, rumors came through to the New South Wales penal settlements that there...
...grubber that tears up trees and underbrush, grinds them up, then works the mulch deep into the earth behind it with a disk harrow...
...Author Lamb tells their story, the peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for facts, a physical coward with an insatiable lust for power. He seldom left his palace, and depended on his great commander, Belisarius, to defend the empire. Of his many great projects, only two fully succeeded: the Justinian Code and the building of the magnificent Church of St. Sophia...