Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admitted mugging an old woman, who later died. Accidentally, his lawyer discovered a police tape that showed how Biron had endured hours of relentless grilling by two hypnotic detectives. ("You're the fella's gonna determine how long you're gonna be buried. You got the shovel. You're diggin' the hole.") Only the tape showed how the detectives had repeatedly lied in promising to send Biron to juvenile court, even though he was legally an adult. When he talked, they charged him with adult murder. After hearing that tape, the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed...
...Viet Cong, a shovel is as important as a rifle. Steadily increasing pressure from American ground and air power has literally pushed the Reds underground, and in the past few years they have carved out a subterranean Viet Nam that is every bit as complex as the surface one. Every city is ringed by miles of intricate tunnels; Red redoubts in the countryside are riddled with sniper-manned "spiderholes," command bunkers, storage vaults, and even underground hospitals with electricity and running water...
...number one match should be the tightest, and a real doozie besides. Adams will shovel his repertoire of shots against the slam game of Yale captain John West. Against Princeton's Burt Gay last Saturday. West won a 3-0 victory with frightening case. Maybe West will remember back to his freshman year, after winning the national junior championship, when Adams blasted him by a 3-0 score...
...leader of the United Mine Workers. He urged that they mechanize their mines, as the U.S. was doing with U.M.W. support. "Do you believe in slavery?" asked Lewis. "No? Well, then, it's better to have 10,000 contented workers than 20,000 men working like pick-and-shovel slaves. That's what mechanization means." Recalls Sir Edward E. Warren, 68, Australia's biggest mine operator: "That was the great breakthrough. We came back home, and mechanization went straight...
...coal seams with spinning metal teeth and can chew out ten tons a minute. Helped by government tax allowances, mine owners have so far spent $236 million on such new equipment; 98% of Australia's rich black coal is now efficiently mined by machine instead of pick and shovel. Mechanical equipment has trimmed the work force from 24,000 miners to 15,000; meanwhile, individual productivity and wages have both trebled...