Word: shoveler
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...literary aspirant did not turn a hair, though the stench would have overpowered most people. He calmly fetched a shovel and a wheelbarrow, conveyed the horrible object to the bottom of the garden, dug a large hole, buried it, and then returned to wash his hands carefully and dust his knees with a handkerchief scented with a few drops of eau de Cologne." The same method may be detected, of course, in The Forsyte Saga...
...borrows as much as $200 million a year from banks and insurance companies spread across the U.S.. is so highly regarded that the Bank of America once wanted to handle all MK's business.) It took years of saving before M-K got its first big steam shovel...
Taste for Growth. Finding uranium in fertilizer is just the kind of moneymaking operation that International Minerals and its bald, bouncing President Louis Ware specialize in. Ware, who learned the mining business from the shovel up, is a combination of scientist and hardheaded businessman, thinks researchers can ferret out untold new products hidden in the earth's drabbest minerals...
...Equipped with a pusher plate and working in combination with Harvester's new rubber-tired, high-speed earth mover (up to 25 m.p.h. across rough terrain), the tractor can load 48 tons of dirt in 60 seconds, a job that would take a man with a shovel ten days...
...koshava, a snow-bearing wind reported to be from Russia, had blocked the road, but the army broke out an infantry company to shovel it clear so that Tito could attend the annual dinner of the foreign correspondents who work in Belgrade. There, the 62-year-old dictator, rejecting native rakija in favor of three Martinis, swapped opinions convivially until an unprecedented 1:15 a.m. He talked of Milovan Djilas, the vice president he had stripped of all offices for being soft on democracy. He loved the man, said Tito, but politically Djilas is through for good. Mr. Djilas...