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  • No matter the calamity, natural or man-made, no matter the location, these animals that just hours earlier were, for the most part, romping in the yard with their families or chasing squirrels in the fields arrive on site in full-work mode and don't rest until ordered by their handlers to do so.

    Rescue-dog teams are unsung heroes of 9/11 2011

  • Sucklers, old, infirm and pregnant receive the same allowances as full-work hands.

    American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

  • "No matter the calamity, natural or man-made, no matter the location, these animals that just hours earlier were, for the most part, romping in the yard with their families or chasing squirrels in the fields arrive on site in full-work mode and don't rest until ordered by their handlers to do so."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • I'm trying to redirect the emotions, and have flung myself into full-work mode, doing everything I can to keep my mind off of it -- I made a turkey, cut it up, did some spackling, worked days ahead of my schedules at work -- hell, I even attempted to clean my bathtub!

    Otherwise . . . Jason Hughes 2010

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