Word: shovelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With pick and shovel, the boy from Gourtloughera helped dig the city's last big subway tunnel. When he worked in a subway change booth-an 84-hour week for a $27.72 pay envelope-the need for a union was obvious. With six others, he started the T.W.U. in 1934 and became its first president. "We were dealing with a lot of young Irishmen who came over from secret organizations," he said. "They liked the secrecy and the intrigue. I liked it too. It never left...
...drive with them. She was taken about five miles into the desert, where Schmid and Saunders walked her down to a dry stream bed and hit her on the head with rocks until she died. Then, Mary related, Schmid walked back to the car, got a shovel from the trunk, and told her to follow him. She did, found Alleen face down and bleeding, and helped bury...
...million, eight-block downtown renewal project. "A city is not just a collection of stores and homes and shops," said Lady Bird. "It is a place for people to live and, hopefully, it is a place where they can live the good life." Then, hefting a chrome-plated shovel, she planted a Japanese cherry tree. When a few citizens wondered aloud how the cherry tree could be expected to last through a bitter Peoria winter, Mrs. Everett Dirksen, whose husband once practiced law in Peoria, uttered the final word. "If Lady Bird planted this tree,"said Mrs. Dirksen,"it will...
...whole atmosphere of U.S. life invites more and more borrowing. Bankers cannot seem to shovel their cash out fast enough, are less interested in what a person or company can put up in the way of hard collateral than in what they have to offer in future earning power. Madison Avenue dances 1,500 advertisements a day before the average U.S. consumer, further tempting him to borrow and buy. The Government encourages borrowing not only by keeping interest rates low but also by making almost all interest payments taxdeductible. Says Donald A. Webster, the Minority (Republican) Economist for the Congressional...
...where he can still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English night, a bid for freedom that ends as a muddy, bloody wrestling match. Though Author Fowles's harrowing final chapters are only capsuled on film, The Collector, even with its intelligence and insight curtailed, still pays off handsomely as a shocker sure to quicken the pulse...