Word: spadework
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...small firm to have a fighting chance, at reasonable rates, is to turn to a research company manned by lawyers. There is now a handful of these in the U.S. doing legal spadework...
Mysterious Allusion. Painting, therefore, was a more natural extension of thought for the Chinese than it is for us, and its special value lay in a harmonious spontaneity: knowledge without spadework. A 9th century scholar, Chang Yen-Yuan, described this ideal...
When he was told that the little cornfield on the banks of the Illinois River was strewn with old Indian arrowheads and pottery shards, Northwestern University Archaeologist Stuart Struever decided to do a little spadework, hoping to unearth an ancient Indian settlement. What he found exceeded his wildest expectations. The plot, owned by a farmer named Theodore Koster, may well hold some of the most important archaeological remains ever discovered in North America...
...relics from the original Yeardley settlement, which is known from old chronicles to have been founded shortly after the first settlement at nearby Jamestown. Thus Gregory asked the farm's owners, New York Investment Banker David A. Harrison III and his wife, for permission to do a little spadework. He soon found pieces of exposed sandstone that were not native to the area and clearly cut and shaped by human hands. A little digging suggested that the stones -which may have been brought from England as ballast in ships-were part of the foundation of an ancient building. Most...
...strategy was based on the assumption that he would have the nomination wrapped up after winning the Wisconsin primary. Humphrey entered the campaign too late to develop an adequate organization anywhere. But McGovern's principal asset was the willingness of his volunteers to do the exhausting spadework in state after state...