Word: shovelfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model year, has scrapped its boxy, overchromed styling, will turn out a comparatively chrome-free, conservative "comeback car" in a "complete break with the past." The longer, lower, wider '59, which will come out in mid-September, will taper from its flaring, high-finned rear to its shovel-snouted front. It will have slanting double headlights like the 1958 Lincoln's, and bigger front and rear windows. Only this year's toothy aluminum grille will remain...
...prize block, which has just been cleaned of its incrustations, shows the debated Gallic harvester. It has two wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...
...Shigalov, the inventor of "Shigalovism," he is a nihilist in action. His other activities include getting thrown out of the ladies' room of the U.S. embassy in a wild chase that bears a slight resemblance to poor Bloom's expulsion, "like a shot off a shovel" from Barney Kiernan...
...Just shovel on a little more coal, And when we cross that White...
...deal were secret, but there was no secret about the richness of the prize. Though D'el Key's British owners dug nearly $300 million worth of gold over the years from a maze of galleries running five miles into the earth, they never laid a serious shovel on the iron. In fact, they had bought the lematite ridges humping hundreds of feet high around the property only to protect water rights for their gold mining. Hanna will modernize the gold mine, but the main play is iron...