Word: steeplejack
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...contracting company responsible for the roof work is Yankee Steeplejack, according to Hickey, who said that it has "been a long summer" of roof work...
...Francisco's landmark Ferry Building last week, steeplejack Jody Mancuso eased herself carefully to the tip of a new white flagpole and crowned it with the same gold-painted sphere that was knocked wildly askew on Oct. 17, 1989, by the strongest earthquake to strike the city since 1906. This week the American flag will be hoisted there once again, to mark the anniversary of last year's temblor, which registered 7.1 on the Richter scale, killed 63 people, injured 3,757 others and caused at least $6 billion in damage...
...ranked seventh in leadership in his old class. He observes sardonically that he "would have been a real big shot" at the academy had he not become involved in the scandal. During his year in purgatory, spent back home in West Islip, N.Y., working as a kitchen helper and steeplejack, his parents got calls from anonymous taunters who would jeer, "I hear your son's a cheat." After all that, the Point seems like paradise. "I requested to go to my old company," he says, "and they've been great...
...Green not only damaged Band instruments, but also fouled halyards on the Soldiers Field flagpole while attempting to hoist the Dartmouth flag. Carroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Harvard Athletic Association, described their action as "vandalism" and said that it was necessary to employ a steeplejack to restore the flagpole to working order...
Second Thoughts. In Cincinnati, Herschel Andrews, 22, on his way to the hospital after a 75-ft. plunge from a chimney scaffolding, was asked his occupation, replied. "Ex-steeplejack," was asked when he decided this, murmured. ''About halfway down...