Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After following the save with the usual controlled passes, Mike Davis found Gary Pedroni and the attackman notched the first part of his hat-trick with a backdoor shovel shot. Davis picked up the assist on this...
...visitors have been told to be polite to their hosts, and there is one scene of high comedy in which a line of tanks is held up by a lone farmer with a shovel. "We've got a population problem," an officer blandly radios to headquarters. "There's a German national up here who won't let us through...
...Huskies (or "UnderDogs") won when star senior center Wayne Turner deftly notched the tiebreaker after picking up a shovel pass from linemate Dale Ferdinandi...
...decade was erected upon the smoldering wreckage of the '60s. Now and then, someone's shovel blade would strike an unexploded bomb; mostly the air in the '70s was thick with a sense of aftermath, of public passions spent and consciences bewildered. The American gaze turned inward. It distracted itself with diversions trivial or squalid: primal screaming, disaster movies, jogging, disco, Perrier water, pornography. The U.S. lost a President and a war, and not only endured those unique humiliations with grace, but showed enough resilience to bring a Roman-candle burst of spirit to its Bicentennial celebrations...