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What is known is that on June 2, 1969, almost six weeks after Parker was last seen, workmen found her body in the fountain, too decomposed to identify a cause of death, coroners said.
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Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2024
Cargo pants, utility vest and all sorts of workman’s references added another casual touch while keeping the vibe young and relevant.
—Alex Badia, WWD, 18 June 2024
After Napoleon Dynamite, Gries landed a recurring role on Lost (2007–2010) as Ben Linus' father Roger, a DHARMA Initiative workman.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 11 June 2024
In addition to the billing, Kurt Jordan said the fire department dragged its feet in supplying information about department salaries needed to comply with a workman’s comp insurance audit.
—Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2024
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Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2024
Cargo pants, utility vest and all sorts of workman’s references added another casual touch while keeping the vibe young and relevant.
—Alex Badia, WWD, 18 June 2024
After Napoleon Dynamite, Gries landed a recurring role on Lost (2007–2010) as Ben Linus' father Roger, a DHARMA Initiative workman.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 11 June 2024
In addition to the billing, Kurt Jordan said the fire department dragged its feet in supplying information about department salaries needed to comply with a workman’s comp insurance audit.
—Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2024
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The society was founded, in 1785, by twenty-two local craftsmen, whose trades included tanning, silversmithing, ship-joining, stonecutting, coach-making, and chandlery.David Owen, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Again, he is deeply involved in the process, primarily through his experience as a craftsman with Van Cleef & Arpels.Anthony DeMarco, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
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The people who are sitting in front of Hitler have, for the most part, sunk below the standard of living of a German workingman with a job.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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The book opens with the 1982 murder of a well-off elderly white woman, Dorothy Edwards, in Greenwood, South Carolina—a murder for which Elmore, an intellectually disabled Black handyman, is swiftly convicted and sentenced to death.Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
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Dmytro worked in construction and sowed a reputation as an expert handyman.Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
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But since 2010, changes in the populations that were migrating, and the failure of Congress to update the system with new legal channels for refugees and laborers, have made asylum the default access for migrants coming to the southwest border.Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
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Much like his 19th century predecessors, protection offers Trump an appeal to diverse constituencies: manufacturing interests, union laborers, declining industrial towns in swing states, voters without college educations and access to tech jobs.Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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My 6-year-old son has built four different Lego flower sets over the past couple of years — all recommended for adult builders — and had no trouble with any of them.Clint Davis, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Unlike the builder’s bespoke superyacht series, Simply Custom all have the same 262-foot lengths, but with one-of-a-kind interiors from some of the world’s most famous yacht designers, including Espen Øino, Lobanov Design, and Nuvolari Lenard.Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
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Hill, a father and grandfather, was remembered by his family and friends as a skilled tradesman and aspiring restaurateur, who had spent years working as a chef and restaurant manager.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Homeowners, livestock and pet owners, gardeners, hobby farmers, ranchers, tradesmen and others rely on Tractor Supply for a wide assortment of products.Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2024
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The book contains funny and terrible things, details and episodes so pungent that they must surely have been stolen from a fantastical artificer like Flann O’Brien.James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
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The book includes new spells, character subclasses, story options for groups of players, options for creating sidekicks, tools for Dungeon Masters and includes the artificer class of magical inventors.Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2020
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As the anthropologist Katherine Newman noted, welfare beneficiaries typically worked full time, but as mothers and caretakers, not wage earners.Alex Park / Made by History, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
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Furthermore, positive wage growth was especially strong for moderate wage earners.Steven Dudash, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workman. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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