Word: shoveling
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Fueling Facts. In England, a booklet just issued by the National Coal Board explains how to shovel coal: "Examine the shovel, approach the coal, grasp the shovel, make a forward stroke, raise the load, swing the shovel in the direction in which the coal is to be thrown...
...Turned the first shovel at groundbreaking ceremonies for Manhattan's $75 million Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...
...that will spread to the corners of the earth, bringing with it the kind of human message that only individuals-not government-can transmit. Here will develop a mighty influence for peace and understanding throughout the world." Then the President descended from the stand, and with a silver-bladed shovel turned three shovelfuls of the presoftened ground for the Philharmonic Hall, the Center's first, to be ready...
...unlikeliest places on the unlikeliest leads. A miner in California, Edward Doheny, sniffed oil when he spotted an ice wagon loaded with tar jolting along a Los Angeles street before the century's turn; he rustled up another prospecting pal, Charles Canfield, and with pick and shovel they dug a 4-ft. by 6-ft. shaft 165 ft. down into the nearby tar pits, struck a field that was to flow more than 70 million bbl., lead to the discovery of another 6 billion bbl. in the San Joaquin valley and the production of hundreds of millions for Canfield...
...years ago fresh from Ohio's Antioch College: "I was a complete stranger, carrying expensive luggage, who bore all too much resemblance to a run-of-the-mill college boy." Bowman soon developed "calluses over blisters," managed not to look "too slack alongside experienced and hardened pick-and-shovel...