pick-ax

As one White House reporter put it to me, there are some journalists who work on pick-ax crews, hammering away at the administration with tough articles that pull no punches and go after shortcomings and possible wrongdoing, and then there are the clean-up crews, who pick through the resulting rubble and explain and put into context the president's actions.

Why we'll miss Helen Thomas Jon Ward 2010

Heenan could take no more, jumped his feet and beat the pick-ax handle on the boy's head again and again, then went to the stable and hanged himself to a rafter.

“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008

Helen Thomas, no doubt, was a proud member of the pick-ax crew.

Why we'll miss Helen Thomas Jon Ward 2010

When one of your characters pleads with the audience not to be unhappy with the ending of a play, but to make one up they like better... that's taking a pick-ax to it, eh?

The Magic Circle 2007

Papa says: They gnaw through even the handle of a pick-ax.

The Ancient Question Answered 2005

Here masses of coal were loosened by pick-ax and crowbar; there the perforating machines, with their harsh grating, bored through the masses of sandstone and schist.

The Underground City 2003

Lectures on science, elementary experiments in chemistry, kindergarten instructions in water color painting, these are as much in their place in the education of the average child as an ivory-handled gold pen in the hand that wields the pick-ax.

Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

You would have needed a pick-ax or a crowbar to flake off even a tiny speck of her.

Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913

On their way back he endured his young friend's banter absent - mindedly, but as they neared Asensio's house he startled Jacket by saying, "Can you manage to find a pick-ax or a crowbar?"

Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

It was mid-morning before pick-ax, shovel and crowbar had opened up a way which Jonas claimed was fit only for kangaroos or elephants.

The Enchanted Canyon Honor�� Morrow 1910