Word: handyman
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...wars. One is fought between Sam Yudenow and a neighborhood storekeeper named Godbolt from whom he rents his movie theater (formerly a church); Sam hates Godbolt for no better reason than that he cheated him. The other war is fought by Daniel and his ally-a contemptuous cockney handyman-against Sam himself. Anything goes in those battles, from the hurling of dead dogs to the shrewd manipulation of greed to defeat greed...
...appearances, the patient was dead on arrival, evidently from a heart attack. William Fruehling, 49, of St. Croix Falls, Wis. (pop. 1,500), a village handyman, had been helping to take a snow plow off a truck in zero weather just after lunch when he collapsed, half in and half out of the cab of his truck. A fellow worker had found him, wrestled the 200-lb. null onto the seat of the truck and drove it a quarter-mile to St. Croix Memorial Valley Hospital...
...Britain's foxhunting, elephant-shooting old regimentals, the Earl of Athlone served as aide-de-camp to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, officiated at countless cornerstone-layings and ribbon-cuttings, became known as the royal family's most affable handyman...
Only real source of friction in the house : Eero's unwillingness to play handyman. Says Aline: "It's the shoemaker's-children-have-no-shoes situation. The basement leaked for months without his taking any interest in it. Then, happily, one day during a strenuous spring thaw, it flooded to a depth of six inches. That was sufficient crisis to engage him. He sprang into action and within an hour a sump pump was making the house throb like an ocean liner...
...aside, wangled reinstatement, and made a gallant name for himself. He never went back to his foie gras and champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities were not strict enough. He went to Nazareth where he became a handyman, living in harsh poverty, with fasting and prayer. His superiors were soon treating him as a living saint. Ordained (1901), Foucauld went to live among the Arabs of North Africa, who respected him as a holy...