Word: wheelbarrows
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...Administration not to forget the little fellow, contracts have been given to firms that were either incompetent or underfinanced. At the Offutt Air Base launching site near Omaha, the construction contract was awarded to a builder who in one Pentagonian's words "didn't even own a wheelbarrow." His frantic efforts to subcontract the entire job produced such confusion and delay that the Air Force ruled that henceforth a contractor must be able to do at least 20% of the work with his own organization...
...fine day at precisely 10:57 a.m., every living thing in the pleasant village of Midwich in the south of England suddenly and for no apparent reason drops senseless where it sits or stands, and lies as if dead. A mason jack-knifes over a wheelbarrow; a cow collapses in a field. What has happened? No gas, no radiation is detectable. Then all at once, as swiftly as it struck, the mysterious interdiction lifts. The villagers, the cows, the birds awake. They all feel chilly, but retain no memory of their inexplicable experience, and seem to suffer no aftermath...
...Shakers distrusted the ornamental; they avoided both "carpenter Gothic" and Victorian arabesques. Their furniture is functional to a T, and yet their tools are subtly shaped to charm the eye and hand. The Shaker wheelbarrow opposite, for example, looks as elegantly clean-lined as a Ferrari...
Splash in the Night. Everyone was delighted when Humorist Benchley moved in, accompanied by Columnist John McClain, who trundled Bob from party to party in a wheelbarrow when walking was out of the question. At the Garden Benchley created some of his most memorable epigrams. There, when a friend said that drink was a slow poison, Bob, nose down in a beaker of martinis, answered: "That's all right. I'm in no hurry...
Barrow of Fun. In Jefferson City, Mo., convicts at the state penitentiary, lacking a telephone booth, stacked 17 men in one wheelbarrow...