Word: sweeper
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...grey, weather-streaked building on New York City's Flushing Meadow, unused since December, reeked of furniture polish. A sweeper swabbed a Kilroy variation off a blackboard in the main reception room of the United Nations General Assembly chamber; it had read: "The Irgun Zvai Leumi was here...
...Typical questions: "Of what advantage is decimal coinage?" "What should a sweeper do about the atom bomb?" "How can a girl avoid being raped...
...rarer kind of dew sweeper was the amateur: at Florida prices, few could afford amateur standing. The dawn patrol slept in auto camps and trailers. They lived on hamburgers and Cokes. In the last few months, six top amateurs have turned pro. Said one of them, Fred Haas Jr.: "It cost me $6,000 to expense myself through 25 tourneys last year. That's costly." Almost the only amateurs left were well-to-do businessmen who can break par, but cannot break into the Big 20. They get a kick out of being in the same tournament with golf...
...Gibson often whizzed down Cranmore Mountain on a wooden sled. But it wasn't until long after he'd made Who's Who, from a standing start as floor sweeper for an express company, that a chance remark by a relative aroused his interest in skiing. Cranmore Mountain had the snow in winter and the slopes. So he bought...
...little finger, where the finger presses against a small hook to steady the instrument; the writer's (or student's or bookkeeper's) on the side of the right middle finger; the French horn player's in the corresponding spot on the left; the floor sweeper's at the base of both thumbs ; the gardener's on the knuckles of his left hand which he uses to brace himself as he weeds with his right...