Word: quarryman
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...placed around to change the scale and give an accent to a place. I picked out each one myself in a quarry in Italy. I remember saying "I want this one": it was underwater. I named each of these stones for someone involved in the project, like Carlo, the quarryman. Only I know their names. Of course, there's one for my son and one for my daughter...
...experimentation that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. He is also ebulliently engaged in transforming the image, and even the function, of the venerable office that he holds. At 61 this week, he is still young for a reigning Pope. He has the physique of a former quarryman, chemical factory hand and outdoorsman. If his strength carries him through this crisis, he is likely to use that vigor once again as a traveling evangelist on behalf of the joy of the Christian life...
...lead his faith into the 21st century. Plainly, the Cardinals had opted for a long pontificate. Just as plainly, they had chosen a man of extraordinary qualities and experience. A newspaper in Lima, Peru, greeted Wojtyla's election with the headline LABORER POET ACTOR PRIEST POPE. That and more: quarryman and factory work-in his youth, member of Poland's anti-Nazi underground, professor of philosophy and ethics, pastor with an unaffectedly common touch. On top of that he is more of an athlete and outdoorsman than any Pope in memory, one who loves to ski in Poland's Tatra...
...forehead noble and clear as a scholar's -or an actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel and go west...
...produced by Planner Mezhlauk. To his satisfaction Mr. Ginsberg proved to Dictator Stalin & Commissars that in the U. S. building industry one U.S. workman accomplishes as much in a given time as four Russians in the Soviet building industry. In the stone cutting industry, said Mr. Ginsberg, one U.S. quarryman equals ten Russians...