Word: shovelful
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...diamondback rattlesnake, its fangs buried near his left thumb. He managed to shake off the snake and ran screaming to a neighbor, who applied a tourniquet that saved Morantz from almost certain death. Fire department paramedics chopped off the snake's head with a shovel, and discovered that the rattles had been removed so that the snake could attack without warning...
...voters of California would not have had to use a meat ax on the tax structure if the politicians and bureaucrats had not been using a scoop shovel to distribute tax money...
Created in 1831 by King Louis-Philippe, the legion was conceived as a force of foreign mercenaries battling for France abroad. Declared Louis's Minister of War: "So they wish to fight -then let them bleed and shovel sand in the conquest of North Africa." The legionnaires spearheaded France's colonial ambitions-conquering Algeria, subduing Morocco, then going on to incursions in Mexico and Indochina. In victory, the legion created a legend. In 1837, one battalion seized the supposedly impenetrable Algerian citadel of Constantine, perched atop a 1,000-ft. crag. Half a century later, another Foreign Legion...
...only costly mistake came on the 18th, which, in this case, was the ninth hole of his round. Fitzgibbons plunked his five-iron into the woods and for lack of a steam shovel was forced to declare an unplayable lie and take a double bogey...
Then, two minutes later, John Dunderdale led George Hughes in alone on a breakaway. Hughes, with Napier beaten, tried to pull the puck around to his backhand and lost control, yet managed to shovel the puck over to linemate Gene Purdy, who was left to shoot on an open net. But Purdy's shot dribbled wide...