Word: wheelbarrow
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...requiring borrowers to take out life insurance policies to cover the amounts of their loans-had folded and settled 45 cases out of court for $4.1 million. By Beasley standards they got off light: if it had gone to the Barbour County jury, God knows the size of the wheelbarrow they would have needed to haul away the verdict money...
...demonic hybrids, as real in its way as Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastic Moscow, because grounded in memory. Thus the blond cripple in The Gargoyles is a fellow artist who had polio; and one of Boyd's recurrent images, a person walking (or copulating) with an animal like a wheelbarrow, was based on the sight of a woman walking her ancient dog along St. Kilda beach, holding up its paralyzed hind legs. One felt he believed in his images (or at least entertained their possibility) as wholeheartedly as medieval artists believed in imps and sirens...
...Airport. (Investigators located the remains only after Rifkin told them where to look.) Suddenly, a perpetrator had emerged for unsolved mysteries -- a body found two years ago in a steamer trunk adrift in the Harlem River; a torso and dismembered limbs discovered last summer floating off Manhattan. A bloodied wheelbarrow and a chainsaw found in Rifkin's garage suggested macabre labors...
...correct; they die quickly. A man with a gimpy leg, evidently the center's undertaker, expertly wraps these two bodies and four others -- the day's dead -- in rags and burlap sacks discarded from rations that came too late. He puts the bundles into a blue wheelbarrow, wheels them out of the compound and down to the banks of the Juba, where they are lowered together into an open grave...
...Celebrating with an egg toss, wheelbarrow race, parade and barbecue in the tiny town of Faith...