roughnecks

• “Wellsboro, business at In My Shoes is up 20 percent in the past year as the "roughnecks" have flocked to town from the gas fields of Texas and Wyoming.”

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• “There was much anger at the roughnecks, but there was no doubt who the shared enemy was: Boris Johnson.”

  The Guardian: The house cracks down on Boris Johnson

• “But he led Texas from the age of cowboys and cotton farmers, roughnecks and Rangers, to the modern era of astronauts and engineers, high tech and telecom.”

  The Wall Street Journal: William Perry Clements: Lone-Star Giant

• “Kate waved sharply at one of her roughnecks, who was standing near the stairs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Gideon’s war

• “I had to travel around the world and talk to all sorts of people -- oilmen, warlords, politicians, economists, geologists, environmentalists, sheikhs, lobbyists, and roughnecks.”

  News Junkies

• “That's not bad, as he poses a striking image whether matching wits with the aristocracy or trading blows with roughnecks.”

  Archive 2009-10-01

• “If anyone is hankering for a quick and ruthless crackdown, it is this group of Kremlin roughnecks.”

  The Huffington Post: Simon Shuster: Russia's Revolutionaries are Walking Into a Trap

• “He was one of them thuggish, tree-smoking roughnecks who wore his sagging jeans practically around his knees—showing off his designer boxers and ass—instead of up on his waist where they belonged.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deep Throat Diva

• “As "Tulsey Town" swelled with oil wildcatters and their "roughnecks," Brady opened the Brady Hotel -- the first hotel in Tulsa with baths -- and set about securing his investment.”

  The Huffington Post: Adrian Margaret Brune: Tulsa's Ghosts of Leadership Past

• “Howard's Steve Costigan story was no doubt based on tales REH heard from oil field roughnecks, drifters, etc., puzzled together into one brutish adventurer.”

  Collecting My Thoughts for the Moment (scratching my head and doing my best James Dean)

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