Word: wheelbarrow
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...such example: a worker leaves the factory one day with a wheelbarrow covered with a cloth. The guard looks under the cloth, finds nothing there, and waves him on. The same procedure repeats for three days, when finally the guard asks the employee: "Look comrade, you must be stealing something. What...
...George and Steven may be living out their childhood fantasies on film," he says, "but I didn't come from the same crate of oranges." Indeed not. "My first childhood ambition was to be the guy who carried the coal from our house to the coal chute in a wheelbarrow. I remember there was this big pile of coal, and then he did his job, and then there was no coal. I liked the rhythm of his work. It was a job you could see getting done. My dad would come home from his job and talk about how unhappy...
Every time someone says "Where's it at?" it is as if a counterfeit dollar enters the nation's money supply. Gradually, people lose faith in the currency until it is as worthless as the German mark in the '30s. When it takes a wheelbarrow full of bills to buy a loaf of bread, the monetary system is no longer useful as a standard for trade. When "don't" follows "he" and "doesn't" follows "I," language is no longer a useful standard for communication...
Randolph also noted the declining interest in affirmative action programs across the country when she left Harvard for the Washington post. "With the Reagan Administration, interest in such programs has gone downhill in a wheelbarrow," Randolph said...
...hospital was to supervise the construction of a fortified fruit stand at a right angle to his gas pumps, thereby shielding himself from the side of the road that sacked him. "Those pillars are sunk four feet deep, and each one is set in a wheelbarrow full of concrete," he explained. "Not even a train could...