Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he preserves between his profession and his conscience. Harry's misgivings are refracted in a series of visual metaphors: the confessional, for instance, becomes not only a tentative purging but also another ritual of ruptured privacy, of secrets overheard. Outside Harry's apartment window, a power shovel digs, an image that will be deepened and expanded at the film's end when Caul becomes the victim of his own technological virtuosity...
...elocution teacher who lived across the street, told him, "Tom, I'm going to vote for you even though you didn't ask me." Surprised, O'Neill replied: "Mrs. O'Brien, I've lived across the street from you for 18 years. I shovel your snow. I didn't think...
...world. They might have been to Vietnam and started smokin there. But one thing they don't like is freaks. They don't like to be considered freaks. They consider freaks lazy. They might have hair down to their assholes, but they're willing to get out and shovel shit and dig ditches. They don't look down on any chore that needs doin...
...middle generation is missing because between about 1950 and 1968, the coal industry did not hire new miners. Union President Miller vows that he will not only bargain fiercely for more pay (current average wage: $225 a week), but also let the coal companies know that "the pick and shovel days are over...
...journeymen miners now is $92 a week, about what a London secretary makes. They are asking for $112.50. "Forty thousand miners in Britain have black lung," Bill Ball, a miner for 33 years, told TIME'S Skip Gates. "We work on our knees, dig on our knees, and shovel on our knees for an entire shift in a space 2 ft. 9 in. tall. If we have to relieve ourselves, we do it right on the spot. It's dark when we go down into the pits, and it's dark when we come out. That...