Word: shoveler
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Within days Chicagoans were fully briefed on every sickening detail of the brawny contractor's Dr.-Jekyll-and-Mr.-Hyde past. His friends and neighbors knew him as a kind, gregarious man who would bring them baskets of fruit as presents, shovel their walks unasked, throw enormous backyard parties for hundreds of friends. The papers ran blow-ups of a card identifying him as a Democratic precinct captain, accolades from fellow Jaycee club members and testimonials from friends who had benefited from Gacy's generosity...
...skiing out of a promised seven. Now we emerged from our wooden cocoon and took the long hike up the stairs-all 250 of them-to see what had been wrought. But the snow had come down off the cliff and flooded into the tunnel, so we had to shovel our way out onto the road...
...least shovel our way out onto what used to be the road. The cliff was still there above us and in the distance, we could make out the Alta Lodge and the middle chair lift. But Rte. 106 was obscured under eight feet of snow. Where there had been cars on Christmas day there were now only the tops of antennas. They dug those out in the spring, too. The only route out of Little Cottonwood Canyon was over several miles of snowdrift...
Sophomore hip check specialist Daryl MacLeod opened the scoring at 3:04, taking a shovel pass from freshman Rob Davies and firing a high wrister to the short side of the cage past Crimson frosh Wade...
...simplest way for the Federal Reserve to control money supply would be to feed a predetermined quantity of reserves into the banking system, turn a deaf ear to pleas that it shovel in more, no matter how intense the demand for loans becomes, and let interest rates go wherever the market takes them. The board has traditionally resisted that approach out of fear that an abrupt crackdown in an inflationary economy would cause interest rates to leap up so violently as to produce financial chaos. Miller has said that if the board had tried that strategy in 1974 the prime...