Word: spadework
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...kept plugging for better management of the British mines. He helped revise the convertibility provisions of the British loan. He had already helped lay down the occupation policy for Germany as a special adviser to General Lucius Clay in 1945. As much as any man, he did the spadework for the new U.S. policy in Germany (by talking France into raising the level of industry; by recommending increased U.S. supervision in the Ruhr in return for more U.S. dollars...
Eager to get an early start on the '51 Redbook, Robert S. Leventhal '48, Student Council advisor, yesterday announced that a temporary committee would shortly be formed to do preliminary spadework...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and big, bluff Jim Farley made one of the most effective U.S. political teams of all time. Farley did the spadework; F.D.R. sowed the political and sociological gardens. Then the team fell apart. Last week, 26 months after Roosevelt's death, Big Jim began to explain "Why I Broke with Roosevelt," in Collier's magazine...
Groundwork. In Shullsburg, Wis., Grayson McNaughton forgot he was digging a basement for his new house but kept right on with his spadework when he hit a vein of lead ore worth...
...serves him well and happily, so long as he is handling cowboy ballads on 6 a.m. radio dates. But once he comes into that lustrous realm in which appearances and contacts and discreet intrigue count for so much, a Perfect Secretary (Marsha Hunt) takes over more & more of the spadework. She even decorates the crooner's new apartment, and selects gifts for his wife. The wife, robbed of every reason to believe that she is useful, needed or loved, and trying always to brace herself among people who politely regret her, takes to heavier & heavier drinking...