Word: workmen
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Muscovites who strolled in the streets last weekend appeared pensive and subdued as they paused to watch workmen drape red and black banners from public buildings and hang hammer-and-sickle flags trimmed in black from lampposts. There were few open displays of grief. Andropov was neither loved nor hated by most of his countrymen, and would be remembered less for what he had done than for what he had left undone...
...Bjelasnica, all covered with snow, workmen are hoisting a wheel to finish rigging a ski lift. The wind is fierce, and faces are glowing like crepes suzette. The snow blowing in the sunlight is as fine as dust. To lengthen the course a few meters, the downhill run begins inside a new restaurant adjacent to a weather station whose frozen antennas resemble the turrets and spires on an ice castle...
...Captain James Cook, first to sail to Antarctica, "a frigid continent girded by icebergs, some the size of mountains, others smaller,...all tossed and churned by gutsy winds and unpredictable heavy seas"; Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, "a quixotic archaeologist with a beautiful wife directing a hundred and fifty rebellious workmen on the exotic Turkish landscape" to find the ruins of Homer's Troy...
...following predictions for 1984 were unearthed yesterday between two bricks on the south side of Adams House B entry by workmen scouring away the last marks left by ivy and scaffolds. Pock-marked and grimy, illegible in spots, the text has been reconstructed as follows...
Work began yesterday on wiring in A and Centry, Conway said, adding that workmen stayed throughout the night to provide temporary service for seven of the 25 rooms...