Word: sweeper
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...Sever's sweeper was almost to busy to say anything. "I don't think they're after the broom pushers. I haven't heard a word about it. I'm too busy to think about such things." He held up a pile of books left by some student. "Look at these," he said. "Do you think I can be bothered to think about things like that with these to look after...
...scrawny, 17-year-old boy with a strong British accent got his first job as floor sweeper and general retoucher in the Chicago lithographic firm of Shober & Carqueville. A year later he was a scene painter for the Chicago Opera, priming the enormous backdrops with a large brush dipped in glue. This job he attacked so earnestly that at the end of his first day's work he fell in a dead faint on the floor. His name was Albert Sterner, born a U. S. citizen, in England, of naturalized parents...
...Colorado" spent most of its time refueling four destroyers, two airplanes, the coast guard cutter "Itasca," and the Navy mine sweeper which was supposed to have refueled the aviators at Howland Island. Captain William Fridell soon tired of this menial task, however, and put for the phoenix Islands, nearly 300 miles south of the equator. The captain figured that winds and current would have driven the lost pair south...
Then for two hours, moving cautiously lest he release the bee-maddening smell of a squashed bee, he herded most of the insects back into their hive. Later he returned with a smoke gun and vacuum sweeper to clean up. About 5,000 bees died in the process. From his body Apiarist Van de Poele, who suffered not so much as a swelling, calmly removed some 300 stingers...
Wielding the largest paintbrush in the world-something like a camel's hair street sweeper-chunky, grey-haired Raoul Dufy has been standing on a stepladder in an abandoned garage outside Paris for many months, while Jacques Maroger, technical adviser to the Louvre, stood below stirring basins full of pigment, water, alcohol and nut oil with an egg beater...