Word: shovelful
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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...
...everything else, quickly disintegrates in the trenches. A veteran, Katczinsky (Ernest Borgnine), teaches them the two essentials of staying alive - stealing food and killing Frenchies. Never use a bayonet, he says; while you are pulling it out of a man's stomach, his comrade will get you. A shovel, on the other hand, can take your enemy's head off in one quick motion, leaving you free to defend yourself. The veteran and Paul Baumer, the youthful narrator (Richard Thomas), grow together, like father and son; but in the end none of Katczinsky's advice can save...