Word: shovelers
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...have I ended my harangue," quoth the sage, "and I have no time in which to shovel a story this...
Sweat on learned brows . . . the pick-and-shovel corps of Science toiling far afield... unearthing the bones of vanished animals, the relics of dead civilizations...bringing their treasures to bustling cities for common men to see in museums. Doings of diggers lately...
...many a Burlington and Budd technician, 20 newshawks and one burro boarded Burlington's silvery new high-speed Diesel-powered train. A full third of the way across the continent in Chicago that day, A Century of Progress was opening for its second year. Clackety-clack-streamlined, shovel-nosed Zephyr slid out of the Denver yards at 6.05 a. m. While passengers settled themselves in its three articulated compartments. Zephyr picked up speed. For a while she did not venture over 75 m. p. h. At the last minute a defective armature bearing had had to be replaced...
...staggers desperately into the thick of the scuffle, jumps at the throat of the leader of the Red Shirts. This feat of valor does more than end the war. When Nemecsek's mother arrives to find her son, small Nemecsek is dead. The next day, a steam-shovel starts digging up the Paul Street lot for the foundation of an apartment house...
...favorite mountain El Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could not stop him. Five thousand U. S. Marines chased him for five years, killed nearly 1,000 of his followers, reported him dead a score of times but never laid hands on him. U. S. newspapers uniformly called him "bandit." But what Sandino wanted...