Word: shovelful
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...played all day every day in the summer," Rick recalls. "In the winter, I'd shovel snow off the court and even play at night." The practice earned him a scholarship at the University of Miami, where he led the nation in scoring his senior year...
...have three dogs, not by choice; all were abandoned by that superior creation-man. While the industries involved in pandering to maladjusted pet owners shovel in the money, rendering plants shovel out the carcasses of the have-nots as ground fertilizer...
...John R. Coleman's working-class sojourn, his boss sends him off to deepen a cylindrical hole to make way for a standpipe. Coleman dutifully shuffles off, squeezes his frame down into the muddy pit, and with cramped movements heaves irregular clods back up towards the light. Ill-aimed shovel-loads occasionally fall back on him, but Coleman admits to rather liking the task. And just a few feet away, he notes, another submerged laborer toils in another clammy shaft...
With the defense holding firm, the 'Cliffe offense got to work. At 18:00, freshman Anne Johnson scored a beautiful goal. Johnson picked up a rebound to the right side of the N.U. goalie, circled behind the net, cut across in front, and then lifted her favorite "shovel" shot past a bewildered Husky netminder...
...that he preserves between his profession and his conscience. Harry's misgivings are refracted in a series of visual metaphors: the confessional, for instance, becomes not only a tentative purging but also another ritual of ruptured privacy, of secrets overheard. Outside Harry's apartment window, a power shovel digs, an image that will be deepened and expanded at the film's end when Caul becomes the victim of his own technological virtuosity...