Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunlessness of life in West Berlin is an observable thing. It is reflected in the headlines, telling of fresh furrows in the "dead zone" which the Reds are digging between their own sector of Berlin and Communist East Germany beyond. It shows in shabby gangs of unemployed who shovel slush out of ice-clogged streets-obviously refugees unused to manual labor...
...self-styled Don Quixote who trod on Quirino's toes by pushing his investigations of municipal graft embarrassingly close to the presidential palace, Lacson likes to boast that he "calls a spade a spade, and if necessary, a dirty, stinking, lousy shovel." Not surprisingly, it was his tongue (which a Manila hostess once suggested he should send to the laundry) that got him into trouble. Lacson was sued for libel-and gladly suspended by President Quirino-after he publicly denounced his deputy chief of police as "ignorant, an ignoramus and incompetent...
...Snow shoveling can be bad for the heart, especially if done too fast, said two Springfield, Mass, physiologists after doing some figuring. The shovel itself weighs about 5 Ibs., a load of dry snow adds 3¾ Ibs., and wet snow adds up to 17½ Ibs. Shoveling wet snow with might & main for ten minutes strains the heart as much as running up 61 flights of stairs. Their advice: "Shovel slowly...
...height of Newport's "Golden Age," one of the resort's hostesses gave a dinner for 50 at which the center of the table was piled with sand. Each of the guests found a small, sterling silver pail and shovel at his place. At a given signal everyone dug frantically for thousands of dollars' worth of rubies, sapphires and diamonds buried in the sandpile...
...investigation of the MTA, and throw out the incompetents who have saddled its patrons with increased taxes and the 15-cent fare which Governor Dever four years ago promised would never come. Under a Republican Administration, I can promise that gasoline taxes will never be squandered on election-year shovel-leaners, and that inspection of contractors' work will not be so neglected that a faulty over pass collapses, endangering the lives of workers and bus passengers...