Word: swingload
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...quit to devote full time to logging. Three years later he was married, and as his family grew (two sons, four daughters) the timber dwindled. "My father-in-law got me into the stevedores' union," he remembers. He worked the docks for 26 years until 1947, when a swingload of timbers crushed muscles in his arms, hips and back (his bones, he says, were too strong to break). Still, he worked at construction jobs and logging until he won the CBC part...
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