Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first Jewish settlers of what was then Palestine came with only the clothes on their backs and a shovel in their hands. They transformed the land from swamps into pastures and made the deserts bloom. Later settlers came from all over the world, to hardship and trouble, to the knowledge that their sons would be required to serve in the army first for three years and then in the reserves for the next 30. They came with knowledge that Israel faces a threat to its existence daily, that no decade has passed without a war, and that their sons, their...
...Lost on some people are Wisconsin's other blessings: the pride in workmanship that links towns (Oshkosh, Kohler, Wausau) to products, the ingenuity that created the democratic charter of the Packers, the loyalty that keeps Lambeau Field sold out through thick and thin, the spirit of the people who shovel the snow out of the stadium for free...
...revolutionary work of art has to be scorned and stoned like a prophet by the uncomprehending crowd. In the cult of the problematic, as distinct from the enjoyable, Duchamp rapidly became a saint, and the Nude is one of his prime relics. So are his "readymades"--a snow shovel or a ceramic urinal designated as works of art, sardonic jokes that have been done seven-eighths to death by decades of critical interpretation, but that nonetheless are the ancestors of every piece of "appropriation" art done by Americans from early Jasper Johns down to the present...
Gregory says she's still expected to help with household chores--"if there's a big snowstorm I might go back and help shovel...
...goes well with these flights, as many as four more pairs will follow at two-year intervals beginning in December 1998. Though the second lander will not be as mobile as Pathfinder, it will have an improved stereoscopic camera and a robotic shovel, allowing it to scoop up soil and conduct more detailed studies of its chemical composition. Unfortunately, none of these ships is designed to test for what captured the world's imagination last week: Martian life...