Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...content to accept all sorts of tempting funds with complete disregard for an institution's freedom and standards. They have not been so naive as to assume that they can survive without a successful working agreement with Washington. Those on the government end, likewise, have not been satisfied to shovel loads of post-Sputnik dollars into science with the blind hope that the investment will just naturally pay off in security and progress. The government, with this report, seems ready to alter its program if the universities can prove the need for a change...
Businessmen with heart trouble should always run to catch their trains, shovel snow, smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and lose their tempers frequently. Fat men should eat heartily to make sure they stay fat. Middle-aged executives should play 72 holes of golf or five sets of tennis singles with a teen-ager every weekend. Above all, every executive should work as if there were 28 hours in each day, and whenever an ailment crops up, avoid doctors and treat it himself...
Using avant garde shovel blades called "Jumbo Bats," Isis tralled all the way, challenging only at the mile marker, where it came to within one-quarter length of the sprinting varsity. Crimson stroke Tony Goodman and company finished the mile, 550 yard course in 6:39, a new record for the Henley distance...
...eight-man rowing final a fast-stroking German crew, using
revolutionary, shovel-shaped oars, defeated Canada by three-quarters of
a length, left the U.S. Naval Academy's rowers adrift in fifth place.
For the U.S. the loss was the first in the event since 1912.
...shovel, to be put to bed with a-to be so drunk one must be assisted home