Word: plumber
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...With the Star Cup on the line, Mario knocked Bowser out with a red shell Saturday night. “Fucking plumber,” Bowser was heard to mutter...
...volume’s relative slimness—Rushdie says that he has been “trying to write a short novel for years,” and is proud to have finally succeeded), though there are still several juicy cameos: Schlink, the Jewish U-boat plumber (“Erect, wiry, with Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth”), or Beloved Ali the taxi driver (“Hey! American man! You are a godless homosexual rapist of your mother’s pet goat”). Some of these seem to go astray...
...network's managers have just announced a need for an additional $4 billion to repair cracked rails brought to light by a fatal crash last year. Highways are in worse shape than at any time since 1977. One adult in five can't read well enough to find a plumber in the Yellow Pages...
Williams says his idea came to him in 1997 while he was a Harvard Law School student. Even Harvard's vaunted library often had books missing, either hoarded by professors or hidden by overachieving classmates. Williams had no time to waste. The son of a plumber, he had to earn a living. Exasperated, he thought, Why not put the Library of Congress online...
What’s more, Swift is utterly normal. There’s no Cambridge mansion or Kennedy-esque legacy in this politico’s background. Swift is from the western Mass. town of North Adams and is the daughter of a teacher and a plumber. She’s won and lost political races, becoming the youngest woman ever to be elected to the state senate (she was 25), althoughy she lost a 1996 race for Congress...