Word: shovelful
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...Shoveled Cream. If Gunther had left it at that, his book would be a fascinating fictionalized reminiscence. Unfortunately, he succumbs to the Viennese weakness for whipped cream, mountains of it, wherever possible. After a connubial kiss on page 20-"Bending over and with his hand cupped like a trowel he lifted her chin"-Jarrett's hand more often resembles a shovel. His amatory adventures are mawkish, his professional exploits downright unbelievable: before the book's end he has even manned a machine gun to help fight off the Heimwehr...
...Harvard crew does not row with the regular American oar but uses a European "tulip" or "shovel" oar. The new style has served well, and the Crimson has lowered the Charles River record for 2000 meters twice this season--first by beating Princeton and M.I.T. in the Compton Cup (the record fell from 6:15.4 to 6:00.1), and again by whipping Navy and Penn for the Adams Cup (the new record...
...Harvard's crew: the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges sprint championships, by a length, at Lake Quinsigamond, Mass. Despite choppy water and a 15-knot headwind, the unbeaten Crimson crewmen stuck to their shovel-like smooth-water oars, leaped into the lead at the start of the 2,000-meter race, and held on to edge Cornell, chalk up their fourth straight victory, and establish themselves as a top candidate to represent the U.S. at next autumn's Olympics in Tokyo...
Storm of Stones. One afternoon last week, therefore, about 100 demonstrators broke from the edge of the muddy Lakeview lot, threw themselves at the wheels and treads of bulldozers, power shovels, trucks and mobile concrete mixers. A power shovel operator watched in disbelief as six people-including a woman five months pregnant-leaped into a ditch and stretched out prone just beneath the shovel's jaws. Police moved in to disperse the demonstrators, but many came out of the muck fighting. Twenty-one were arrested that day; two were hurt...
...pick-and-shovel brigades have invaded Gibeon, where once the sun stood still for Joshua; painstakingly they have probed for the ruins of Gordion, capital of Phrygia, where poor King Midas saw his concubines turn to gold at his touch. The city of Ephesus, sacred to the goddess Artemis, and Aphrodisias, sacred to Aphrodite, are yielding their age-old secrets. The remnants of Hatra, destroyed long ago by the Persians, have been recovered from the debris of centuries. Samarra is being excavated-that lovely capital of Abbasside caliphs, who ruled over the Near East during Europe's dark ages...