Word: trowell
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...follow Mrs. Johnson's example; she took up a collection of money and materials from individuals and businesses, renovated an old pavilion, restocked a lagoon, and installed night lighting in Marquette Park. In San Jose, Calif., Mrs. Lorna Smith watched Lady Bird on TV, picked up a trowel, marched out and planted a 30-ft. bed of iris next to the bus stop...
...Having laid the cornerstone for the Great American Society, President Johnson of late has been impatiently twiddling his trowel, looking for new worlds to conquer. Last week he found one-the great world itself...
...would think of those bones at bed time. We all became kind of fond of him," said Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, after spending ten days pecking away with trowel, whisk broom and dental pick to unearth a fragile, 700-year-old skeleton in a kiva (chamber) of an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement in wildest Arizona. Lynda roughed it with a team from the University of Arizona excavating near a place called Grasshopper. And while she was rolling that wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town...
...Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack's father, Jesse Isidor, spread Macy's out from Newark to Toledo before he became Franklin Roosevelt's first Ambassador to France. Jack himself was practically born with a silver trowel in his hand; he used it at the age of two to lay the cornerstone of the present store. Ever since, he has seemed fated for his current...
Shoveled Cream. If Gunther had left it at that, his book would be a fascinating fictionalized reminiscence. Unfortunately, he succumbs to the Viennese weakness for whipped cream, mountains of it, wherever possible. After a connubial kiss on page 20-"Bending over and with his hand cupped like a trowel he lifted her chin"-Jarrett's hand more often resembles a shovel. His amatory adventures are mawkish, his professional exploits downright unbelievable: before the book's end he has even manned a machine gun to help fight off the Heimwehr...