Word: hod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roof, they live like animals. When Natale (Giorgio Listuzzi), a $1.50-a-day hod carrier, marries Luisa (Gabriella Pallotti), he takes her home to a two-room apartment owned by his brother-in-law and already occupied by four adults and three children. The newlyweds manage to fit their bed into a corner of the smaller room which they share with Natale's parents and his sister, who turns out to be a peeping tomboy. Some nights, just to get a little privacy, the honeymooners sneak out and make love in the side yard. In this human hutch-with...
...Design. As a further step the three departments require the students to spend one summer at practical professional experience. Recognizing that one cannot learn flashing and sheathing from a draughting board the Department of Architecture recommends a job in the field. So one recent student found employment as a hod carrier...
...Goos" and K.K.K. Tenement-born son of an immigrant hod carrier. Curley came to boyhood while the Brahmins ran Boston and the want ads read: "No Irish need apply." He decided that politics was the quickest vehicle to carry him from shanty to lace curtains, developed two tricks to grease the passage. He haunted public libraries, feasted on Shakespeare, Dumas, Dickens and Thackeray, became a silver-throated orator. And he played skillfully and sometimes shamelessly on the pride and privation of Boston's Irish poor...
...garment district, primed such innovations as shirtwaist dresses and dressmaker suits, thought U.S. women the world's best dressed, "despite the fact that once every so often I see a woman in a dress I've struggled over, carrying herself like a hod carrier"; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan...
...Sinai war, show signs of wanting to look out for themselves as their more communal-minded parents never did. In the burgeoning cities, university-trained top civil servants complain that the $175 to $225 a month salaries allotted them in Ben-Gurion's egalitarian state barely top a hod carrier...