Word: shovelful
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Never intended to replace reinforced concrete, soil cement has far exceeded engineering expectations. Engineers had known that the ground where cement bags were shaken out soon hardened. But soil cement stayed in the rule-of-shovel stage until...
...shovel handles-shovel helves...
Katharsis. In Perry, N.Y., a classified ad appeared in the Perry Herald, asking nothing, offering nothing, merely complaining: "Some lousy whelp stole my snow shovel off my porch last week. Margaret Keelty, North Center Street...
...undaunted. Said Storekeeper Floyd Bagley: "It's good exercise." Accountant Grover Lowe: "I've got a boy in England and another up north. . . . This gives me a chance to do something." Verne Hickey, Chamber of Commerce president: "Merely a matter of changing a golf stick for a shovel . . . Didn't even have to change my stance much...
...give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes the motors stalled; everybody had to get out to shovel. A snow boulder stove in the cabside. The engineer was knocked out. Bill Jeffers jumped to his place, grabbed the throttle, finally got the plow into Parco. Union Pacific trains ran again...