Word: shovelers
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Five villagers agreed to do the job. Using a tangan, a crude shovel with a specially curved blade and an extra-long handle, they probed deep into the earth around the mound, extracting core samples and examining the dirt for indicators such as traces of charcoal, which the ancients packed around tombs to ward off humidity. Locating a likely spot, the villagers lighted the fuse on a 110-lb. lump of homemade dynamite and blew a hole in the middle of a wheat field. Having blasted their way to a spot near the top of the tomb, they donned...
TANGAN This special shovel, which has a curved blade and steel screw-on handle extensions, can extract soil samples from 115 ft. below the earth's surface...
...touchdown catch in the second quarter that extended Princeton’s lead to 14-6 should have just been a shovel pass for a three-yard gain. Instead, Veach slipped through a tackle and darted past two would-be pursuers for his second score...
Wells lived alone in a small rented white A-frame house, where he did little but tend to his cats, watch rented movies and, in the winter, help his neighbors shovel snow. His take-home pay was usually only a few hundred dollars a week, but the week he died, he made his last regular payment on a loan extended by a friend to help him buy the Geo Metro he drove. He played the lottery regularly and once collected a $250 payout, which he talked about for weeks. A co-worker, Robert Slayton, recalls that Wells' only vice seemed...
...moves around in a cart; other times he pines for Sparky's company. In one episode he drags Sparky into the backyard and buries him alive without malice or reason. The next day Quimby wakes up and can't figure out what happened to Sparky. Distressed, he discovers the shovel and, suddenly remembering, begins digging for Sparky in a panic. Quimby retrieves the still-alive Sparky to his great relief and goes to bed happy, though Sparky his bitten out a piece of Quimby's foot as revenge...