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Word: shovelfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shovel-snouted grille. Optimistically, President Harold Churchill predicts that the company will cruise into the black before year's end. But after viewing the wide range of Champions. Commanders, Hawks, Presidents and Packards, another automan wondered if S-P was still not trying to do too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Little Two | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...acres into the soil bank will not get price supports on more than 75 acres of total crops. But few farmers are seriously worried. Though the great sorghum game is over, farmers are sure that when the time comes there will be plenty of other loopholes to shovel surpluses through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Great Sorghum Game | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...face of war and the faces of the men now fighting it ... The best picture we could get would be a single G.I. hacking away at a single foxhole in the ice of a Korea winter . . ." Murrow brought back the vivid sight and sound of a marine's shovel rasping futilely at the earth. Other memorable See It Now moments for eye and ear: a Buchenwald tattoo on the arm of an Israeli jet pilot; a "rehabilitated" Mau Mau warrior singing Onward, Christian Soldiers; the ding of a bullet taken out of a G.I.'s spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Is Murrow | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...much as $280 each: place a large, fresh white canvas on the floor, pour paint and printer's ink on the canvas, jump up and down on the paint, dance and skip over the surface, ride over the canvas on a bicycle, soak the canvas in paraffin, shovel sand on the painting to give it "added texture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 30, 1957 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

High in the Rif mountains this week 4,000 young Moroccans hacked away with pick, shovel and sledge hammer, gouging a road out of the wilderness. Even for the peasants who made up three-quarters of the group, the work was exhausting, as temperatures simmered up over 100°. City boys desperately tried to toughen their torn hands with tannin from the bark of cork trees. The work was hard, and nobody got paid-but the whole business was somehow satisfying. The young nation of Morocco was building something for itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Morocco: Hope | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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