Word: shovelful
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...101° heat, FBI agents swarmed over an earthen dam on Olen Barrage's Old Jolly Farm, six miles southwest of Philadelphia, Miss. Through the scrub pines and bitterweed, they bulldozed a path to the dam, then brought up a lumbering dragline whose huge bucket shovel began chewing a V-shaped wedge out of the 25-ft.-high levee. Twenty feet down, the shovel uncovered the fully clothed, badly decomposed bodies of three young men, lying side by side in a pocket of red clay. They had been dumped there while the dam was still being built, and in the weeks...
...Realty Group, showed up at the Strip's Four Seasons Hotel with a stack of 14 signed checks. Each of his clients was determined to buy a spot in the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino, a property that will not exist until late 2007 or 2008 and for which a shovel will not touch the earth until fall. "It's a zoo," says Hiatt. "Buildable land here is running out. We have only one place to go, and that's up." By March 1, the tiniest of the hypothetical condos had risen in price...
...driver's license has never been just about driving. When the first ones were issued in the early 1900s, the idea was to collect fees, not to test driving skills. More recently, revoking licenses became a way to punish people who didn't pay child support or, in Wisconsin, shovel snow off their walks. In its most coveted form, the license is proof of age--or of fraud, as the case may be. In college, for example, I was not Amanda Ripley from New Jersey; I was Amanda Jones from California. I lived on Yellowbrick Road and looked suspiciously joyful...
...clear was sounded. This was the weather plane that advised the Enola Gay that the target was open. Schoolchildren looked forward to air-raid alerts, which allowed them to stop working. Kawamoto said goodbye to his mother, who told him to take care of himself. He plonked a shovel on his shoulder and strode soldier-like toward the railway station...
...there and they needed a right wing so I just jumped out there. I came in a little bit late and Taylor made a great play on the forecheck forcing the turnover, made a great pass to me on my tape and I was just able to shovel...