Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed with a shovel; he has been repeatedly arrested for petty crimes and is fighting a long prison sentence for extortion. He suspects everyone: Bosnians out for vengeance, NATO forces who he fears will deliver him to the Hague, Serb secret police determined to hush him up. "There are so many refugees, agents, spies...
...people might want to leave this winter scene to spend the weekend where the grass is visible and the dogs are not so empowered. But the bobcats are worth watching, their halogens shooting into the attacking snow as their engines stutter and their wheels squeal in the effort to shovel the snow from street to curb. The dogs won't run on clean streets. The cars will, though. The bikes might still encounter some icy trouble...
...storm evoked the classic range of human behaviors, from slick to tragic to elevated. Entrepreneurs in Reston, Virginia, asked $125 to shovel driveways. In Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, a 60-year old shoved his 70-year-old neighbor for accusing him of dumping snow on his car, and the man fell and died. In New York, notwithstanding its recent rosy crime statistics, two men with a 9-mm pistol reportedly relieved Bronx building superintendent Robert DeJesus of his snowblower. But other city dwellers deferred elaborately to one another on narrow-shoveled walks. In Washington, Abby Stone and her two daughters made...
...done. Harvard could simply spend more money, but since that's about as likely as Tibetan Yak-racing becoming an Olympic sport, we obviously need another source of labor. My suggestion is to take all students ad-boarded for disciplinary offenses, chain them together and let them shovel. The Harvard Civil Liberties Union might protest, but by the time they get an injunction, it'll be spring...
...billion last year alone, up 15.5% from the year before and $9.6 billion from five years ago. The $8.4 billion on lawns, the $3.1 billion on flowers are just the beginning. The Victorian watering cart from Smith & Hawken costs $1,500. Tiffany offers a full-size sterling-silver shovel for $9,500. Boutiques bristle with garden furniture, fountains, gargoyles, gazebos, antique Parisian paving stones and authentic-looking archaeological debris. Finally, like sailing and skiing and polo, gardening now offers the wardrobe that reeks of pedigree, clothes far too expensive to roll in the dirt, gloves so elegant they could...