Word: trowel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of azaleas and chrysanthemums and orchids and roses in such startling sixes and colors, some flower-show visitors felt like throwing in the trowel. Said one lady in sturdy galoshes: "Honestly. I think they go out and buy them somewhere. Who ever heard of anybody raising anything like this." But under every hat, both flowered and sensible, lay a secret resolve to go home and start digging...
...winter rain, Italy's Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani picked up a workman's trowel and mortared the cornerstone. The vicegerent of the vicariate of Rome splashed the stone with holy water. Yet all the fanfare was not for some vast new public utility. It was for Movie Producer Dino de Laurentiis and his new $11 million studio, located on a 750-acre site 13 miles south of Rome. It was official recognition that one of Italy's most vital export industries is its booming movie business, and that the biggest thing in Italy's movies...
...properly royal reserve. At one affair, he was startled when a brash U.S. Congressman wanted him to autograph a 100-yen bill; he refused. A fussily frugal man who goes around turning out unneeded lights, Hirohito is fond of wandering in old clothes about the grounds with a trowel in hand in case he spots a choice sample of fungus. But the Emperor's real passion is the crab. On his days off, wearing a leather jacket, work pants and high boots, he boards a coast guard cutter and voyages along the shores of Sagami Bay, where women divers...