Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laws of its own which is to be found in every camp in Vorkuta. The organization is made up to a large extent of former besprizornye, the vagrant children who have been characteristic of the Soviet Union. I never once saw one so much as lay hands on a shovel. His companions would murder him if he did. The camp authorities put them officially into brigades, but it is more than any brigadier's life is worth to try and get any work out of them. Fights are nearly always settled with knife and hatchet. Every year a large...
Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson goes about his ring work in the methodical, workmanlike way of a power shovel moving a specified amount of earth. A power shovel lacks drama, but there are always sidewalk superintendents around to watch. Last week 16,543 superintendents, paying $107,660, flocked into San Francisco's Cow Palace-joining millions of free lookers on TV-to watch Bobo defend his title against France's Pierre Langlois...
...work until they are 20 or 22 years old with any success. They can't be put in the penitentiary, as a rule, because they haven't committed any crime. And the Civilian Conservation Corps [the now legendary CCC of youthful shovel-leaners] has been abandoned...
...last week and announced: "I'm interested in toys for a six-year-old boy and a four-year girl-and I'd like them to be very American." For half an hour she examined and tested a procession of toys before settling for a steam shovel ($5), a plastic tea set ($3), a baking set ($5), a chocolate-drink mixer ($5) and a collection of plastic bricks ($5). Except for her clipped accent and a certain bedlamic stir that trailed after her, the lady might have been any ordinary grandmother on a shopping spree in New York...
...deal was typical of the way 54-year-old Steve Bechtel operates. Though he rose from the shovel, he is no horny-handed son of toil. Always immaculately tailored, Steve Bechtel is as much at home over the negotiating table or in one of his many clubs as he is on a construction site. Says one acquaintance: "Steve has housebroken the construction business...