Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier offered me his shovel. I took it and unconsciously traced the characters "Father" and "Mother" in the soft sand. Then I erased them and wrote the names of my wife and children. I touched the good-luck omen my mother had given me and I thought of her prayers for my safety. . . . I murmured: "I don't want to die. Can nothing help me?" I put my hand on my heart as though to stop its pounding and told myself that this was not fear. But I was apologizing to myself. For that's what...
...Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels: "I know you have it hard today. . . . Your wives sometimes stand for hours before stores in order to buy some vegetables. Your children are frequently sent into the country and separated from you for months. . . . Then because necessary hands are not available you have to shovel coal; then at nights go into air-raid protection cellars and, after two hours' sleep, back to hard work. That is the way it is in many cities of the Reich and in some even worse...
Almost since the first shovel of dirt was turned in the emergency construction program the Quartermaster Corps has been under fire. Bereft once before of its construction functions, during World War I, it had got them back, in 1920 (by recommendation of General Pershing), since then has had lots of experience building barracks, officers' quarters, CCC camps, flying fields...
...merchants liked it too: "Hell, yes. Charge the stuff to 'em. They get one of them blue government checks every two weeks. All they got to do to get it is to get in a bunch and stand around leaning on a shovel for sixty-five hours. . . . Charge it to 'em. Add about half again onto everything they...
Black Watch. To civilians who think of Army engineers as pick-&-shovel soldiers, the performance of the 41st might have seemed surprisingly belligerent. But not to soldiers: combat engineers fight with guns as well as shovels, often lead attacking troops into battle when enemy fortifications, tank-traps, etc. have to be demolished. Lieut. Colonel Wood's use of simulated tanks was something extra, just to show what Negro engineers could do in a pinch...