Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pick-and-shovel brigades have invaded Gibeon, where once the sun stood still for Joshua; painstakingly they have probed for the ruins of Gordion, capital of Phrygia, where poor King Midas saw his concubines turn to gold at his touch. The city of Ephesus, sacred to the goddess Artemis, and Aphrodisias, sacred to Aphrodite, are yielding their age-old secrets. The remnants of Hatra, destroyed long ago by the Persians, have been recovered from the debris of centuries. Samarra is being excavated-that lovely capital of Abbasside caliphs, who ruled over the Near East during Europe's dark ages...
...knows better than Moscow that trade is a weapon in the cold war. "With every additional shovel of coal, with every additional load of oil obtained through foreign help," Old Bolshevik Lev Kamenev once predicted, "capitalism will be digging its own grave." Faced with the continuing failure of their economy, the Russians may be forced to rely on wheat from the West for years to come, but above all they want to get hold of heavy industrial items including whole factories, which Russian industry on its own cannot duplicate for a long time to come. Western policy is divided...
...apprentice colleges, the old way of breeding British universities, the new schools are opening as full-blown universities. Skirting wet cement and snarling bulldozers, a visitor at one raw campus last week felt "the kind of enthusiasm you find in an Israeli kibbutz. You want to pick up a shovel or roll up your sleeves and unpack books. It is all so unstuffy, informal and energetic that it seems downright un-English...
...mother hanged herself after being raped by a landlord. In the good new days, Lei Feng was always helping old ladies across streets, buying railway tickets for mothers who had lost theirs, rushing out to do volunteer work on dikes and canals, and digging with his fingers when his shovel broke. Lei Feng died last year in an accident but, fortunately for the propagandists, left behind a 200,000-word diary filled with such sentiments as "I think my purpose in life is to work for a better life for others," and, "I am all for the Party, Socialism...
...year a report by the Taconic Foundation concluded that the usefulness of New York City's vocational schools is "extremely questionable." Frank Cassell, personnel director of Inland Steel Co., says that "vocational education in Illinois bears about the same relationship to the real needs of industry as the shovel and the pickax do to the equipment demands of road building...