Word: shovelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restricted to alternating one-way traffic with cutoffs for passing. Traffic moves at a maximum speed of 15 m.p.h. To build it, the government mobilized more than 12,000 workers. Hanging by ropes over the edges of thousand-foot cliffs, workmen planted dynamite, then with pick and shovel carved the highway into near-vertical rock faces. All told, the road required 61 bridges and 85 tunnels. Accidents were almost a daily occurrence. One typhoon last August washed out four whole miles, necessitating complete rebuilding at a higher level...
...biggest bulk west of Chicago. Where other newspapers send one reporter after a local story, the Times may send a squad, then run everything they write. This produces coverage so exhaustive that the editor of a rival daily once remarked that the Times was "put together with a shovel." Enduringly conservative in its policies, stubbornly sedate in a city that invented Hollywood, the Times has long gazed contentedly over its sprawling domain. The notion of its getting nervous about any sort of competition seemed highly improbable...
...Using radical, shovel-shaped oar blades, the Oxford crew trounced Cambridge on the Thames by 1¼ lengths in their 106th race, despite the rooting of former Cambridge Coxswain Antony Armstrong-Jones and his fiancée, Princess Margaret...
...sales to drop 25% in St. Louis, 31% in Boston. Across the nation the drop was 17% below the 1959 level. A blizzard closed most businesses in Atlanta last week, forced many department stores to postpone sales. Sighed one auto dealer: "A man has to be pretty desperate to shovel his way into a dealer's showroom." Another factor: Easter will fall three weeks later this year than in 1959, postponing much retail buying. Sears, Roebuck President Charles Kellstadt said Sears is having an unimpressive first quarter, but he still expects sales in 1960 to be as good...
...power shovel advertised for one-ton capacity handles one ton of dirt; a European shovel may be cheaper, but the rating includes the weight of the shovel and it handles only four-fifths of a ton. The Commerce Department's Expert Emil Schnellbacher deplores the "great to do about ours costing more. They get more. In order to get across the idea that they are getting more for their money, we ought to go in more for the hard sell." Those who sell hard are doing fine despite price difference. American Chemical Paint Co. brings its 35 foreign distributors...