| During the Interior secretary's tenure, Taylor jumped to more lucrative work as a pumper, roughneck, and roustabout on Wyoming's oil wells. |
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| He finds work as a roughneck on an oil rig, as a gator wrangler in a tourist trap gator farm, and wearing a sandwich board for a dental office. |
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| When I worked in the South as a roughneck on oil rigs and as a steamfitter, I saw men like Walt get hung out to dry. |
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| He was smart, liked to read, wasn't a roughneck like most kids, and liked being alone from time to time. |
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| It wouldn't be politically wise for the ambitious local marshal to be associated with a roughneck like Horn. |
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| Ultimately the little roughneck escapes, and she bonds with the town's biggest nerd. |
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| By the time she was fifteen she was living on her own, managing a roughneck joint with a double-barrelled shotgun by her side. |
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| I wanted to kill the enemy and be a roughneck and cuss and spit tobacco, come home and do it again. |
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| The foot, like some roughneck hick town, is a remote province of the brain, liberated by distance from responsibility. |
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| The roughneck Damian guzzles beer after beer, opening up to Kevin's sensitive questioning only to retreat again into resentfulness. |
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| When a roughneck neighbour steals the cash, there's a fatal struggle, and she hangs for his death. |
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| Most personalities here are crude stereotypes, from Jon's wife-beater-wearing roughneck dad, to his sex-obsessed pals. |
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| His battues exhaust our people, his roughneck soldiers destroy our lands, but the beast still runs. |
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| During the interior secretary's tenure in the 1980s, he jumped to more lucrative work as a pumper, roughneck, and roustabout on Wyoming's oil wells. |
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| The man from the train is a roughneck played by Johnny Hallyday, a French pop star with a lined face and highlights in his hair. |
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| Which isn't to suggest that Totts does not have a hard streak too, or that Lambie is just a roughneck. |
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| While he may be a bit of a roughneck, he at least has developed a sense of humour about the whole thing. |
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| As with London's later punk scene, New York City's new wave was a collision of sensibilities as influenced by suburban refugees as it was by art students part genuine roughneck and part dilettante. |
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| The feeling of hopeless or helpless indignation into which we are plunged by roughneck prose does not contribute in the way we seek to our mental stature or our peace of mind. |
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| The rumour circulating widely in Africa that many of the more roughneck types of Chinese incomer are prison labourers is, he says, entirely baseless. The trade and investment figures are hard to verify, too. |
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| By adding the Iron Roughneck to its portfolio, Bentec says it can now serve as true one-stop shop for oilfield equipment. |
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| The Roughneck Pneumatic Rock Hammer System from HammerHead Trenchless Equipment of Oconomowoc, Wise. |
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