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  • ...the night foreman kept a close watch on his crew.   (source)
    foreman = a person who is in charge of other workers
  • 'Passengers are forbidden to cross the line on any pretence,' murmured the foreman, doubtfully.   (source)
  • Jurgis clung to his guide like a scared child to its nurse, and while the latter hailed one foreman after another to ask if they could use another unskilled man, he stared about him and marveled.   (source)
    foreman = someone who is in charge of other workers
  • "You're my foreman!"†   (source)
  • Mr. Foreman, is it correct that the jury has reached a verdict?†   (source)
  • A foreman came over and shook hands with Juan and Alfonso and pointed to the cabin in front of the truck.†   (source)
  • Dad lost his job at the gypsum mine after getting in an argument with the foreman, and when Christmas came that year, we had no money at all.†   (source)
  • The labor, performed under club-wielding foremen, was so dangerous and exhausting that thousands of POWs died on the job.†   (source)
  • I grew up in Westingtown where my father was a factory foreman.†   (source)
  • She interposed herself between my grandfather — said to be convalescing — and everyone else, and met daily with the male secretary and with the various factory foremen.†   (source)
  • "You'll follow me," the kapo shouts, "and you'll follow the instructions of the foreman.†   (source)
  • The foreman stood up, looked briefly at Wes, and then his eyes darted over to the people in the viewing area of the courtroom.†   (source)
  • The color begins to fade as the JURY FOREMAN reads verdicts.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sir, we have," said the foreman.†   (source)
  • She reads about how his broken body was thrown on the back of a pickup by the white foreman.†   (source)
  • And he didn't look like a construction foreman.†   (source)
  • Bored and probably drunk, he pulled his pistol out of its holster and shot our foreman—simply shot him, at point-blank range, for absolutely no reason.†   (source)
  • It was hard for me to keep my mind off Dad and the scene-shop foreman's threats.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono barked.†   (source)
  • Bosses and foremen always show him respect and say they're ready to hire him, but when he opens his mouth and they hear the North of Ireland accent, they take a Limerickman instead.†   (source)
  • A few days later I was at work at the glass factory and the foreman, a German man, came over to me and told me I had a phone call.†   (source)
  • The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish.†   (source)
  • I soon found that among my intimate acquaintances-Old Sludge, the scoop-shovel foreman; Unk, the slum-yard bully to whom I paid my protection bribes; Kiti, the lice-ridden crib doxy whom I slept with when I could afford it-my vocabulary served me well.†   (source)
  • For the supernaturally inclined, the death of the jury foreman alone offered sufficient proof.†   (source)
  • They gave some of their nickels and dimes to the foreman as they left but by then their smiles was over.†   (source)
  • The foreman's name, I learned, was Moorman and he had been headmaster of a Roman Catholic boys' school.†   (source)
  • He'd already told his workers and his foremen to leave, to be with their families, to get a head start on the traffic.†   (source)
  • The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based in part on the injury rate of their workers.†   (source)
  • "I brushed my teeth with my finger after the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire, " Murray said.†   (source)
  • There were two other people running-John Foreman and Maggie Brown.†   (source)
  • We walked in a column in rows of four abreast, under the command of Jewish foremen, guarded by two SS men.†   (source)
  • To my surprise, my foreman taught me how to operate the crane, a very responsible job, for it involved picking up stacks of steel weighing several tons.†   (source)
  • You go out on the assembly line with a tape recorder and the foreman sends you to talk to the guy he needs least, the biggest goof-off he's got, and whatever he tells you…that's the instructions.†   (source)
  • By an hour after dawn the first flats were mounded over, and the foreman, a white man, stood writing Roman numerals in a black book beside the name of each picker.†   (source)
  • Freud gives the example of the shop foreman who was to propose a toast to the boss.†   (source)
  • The foreman did not say anything.†   (source)
  • Mr. Freeman was a foreman in the Southern Pacific yards and came home late sometimes, after Mother had gone out.†   (source)
  • Your family moved to Stockholm when your father got the job as the workshop foreman at Zarinder's Mechanical.†   (source)
  • The foreman, Mr. Elton Mott, was especially Godless.†   (source)
  • One of my brothers-in-law was a roofing foreman.†   (source)
  • Their foreman replied: "We have, Your Honor."†   (source)
  • Goldreich and Mandela were joined by other workers, including a foreman, Mr. Jelliman, a retired white who supported the anti-apartheid movement.†   (source)
  • One of the girls left her machine and looked back and forth up the aisles to see if the foreman was around, then came over to where I was standing.†   (source)
  • Except for the guns, they could be foremen coming to collect on a bill or to supervise a job that other men will sweat over.†   (source)
  • When the community of Boston was shattered by the most sensational murder trial of his generation, Paul Revere was chosen foreman of the jury.†   (source)
  • Next morning she sent word to the mill foreman to put on a substitute, and took the morning that she might go with her mother to the hospital.†   (source)
  • In spite of the fact that she could not see him, Ursula analyzed the clicking of his foreman's boots and was surprised at the unbridgeable distance that separated him from the family, even from the twin brother with whom he had played ingenious games of confusion in childhood and with whom he no longer had any traits in common.†   (source)
  • He came upon the driver of America and its foreman, John Dorsey.†   (source)
  • Pop and the prison foreman she worked for, a well-liked guy whose office was full of plants, took holiday meals seriously.†   (source)
  • My foreman died, south of Fort Worth.†   (source)
  • The foreman for that operation requested the special permit and it was received.†   (source)
  • "Three weeks later, with Mortenson demoted from foreman to spectator, the walls of the school had risen higher than the American's head and all that remained was putting on the roof.†   (source)
  • He is now employed as a foreman in the locomotive shop at BNSF, the train company.†   (source)
  • Once, on his way to speak to a foreman he'd been told was hiring, Litvinoff got lost and found himself standing outside the offices of the city newspaper.†   (source)
  • Not until one summer evening when, passing for a shadow, I heard through the open doors of the black foreman's cottage a conversation which convinced me that Lestat and I slept is real danger.†   (source)
  • He was the foreman's son and, to differentiate him from his father and grandfather, had been named Pedro Tercero Garcia.†   (source)
  • Eric Foreman, Daily World.†   (source)
  • Ted, our foreman, was an older man who reminded me of my grandfather.†   (source)
  • Jim Whitehurst eased beside him, took a puff, and said, "What do you think, Mr. Foreman?"†   (source)
  • Brother, who's your foreman?†   (source)
  • There had been a bus ride with a foreman in the shipping department at her job, and she had gone out a few times with one of the ushers in her church—but that was last spring, or was it last winter?†   (source)
  • And most of the foremen, too.†   (source)
  • As a rig foreman, he had detailed survey maps of the oil fields surrounding town, including the badlands.†   (source)
  • Bryan learned that the foreman's name was Al and he'd worked for the road commission for twenty-two years.†   (source)
  • The hag smoothed David's hair and sniffed him several times, squeezing his cheek with slack-jawed distraction, before suddenly striding off toward the door with the brisk air of a busy foreman.†   (source)
  • They are under the watchful eye of Mr. Miller, their foreman, while we are never without a chaperone.†   (source)
  • In front of the Willard Hotel, the stable foreman John Fletcher is still seething that David Herold hasn't return the roan he rented earlier.†   (source)
  • On way back I stopped in Novylen to check an old-fashioned punched-tape "Foreman" I had overhauled earlier, had lunch afterwards, ran into my father.†   (source)
  • Phil was a notorious foreman on the duck-call assembly line.†   (source)
  • The foreman of one plant in Mobile, a large brute, allowed me to tell him what I could do.†   (source)
  • "She's smarter than some men I could name," he told his foreman.†   (source)
  • He had been a gospel singer, a foreman on the railroad, an assistant in an undertaking parlor, and he had come over the radio for three months with Uncle Roy and his Red Creek Wranglers.†   (source)
  • My foreman's in town with the station wagon.†   (source)
  • As usual, the old foreman, Piotr Khudoleiev, was walloping his young apprentice Yusupka.†   (source)
  • The red-faced white man came back with a foreman, and took charge of everything.†   (source)
  • EDMUND Then he accused Harker of making his foreman break down the fence to entice the pigs into the ice pond in order to destroy them.†   (source)
  • And while she lived? rising in the morning before the sun came up, standing and bending in the fields when the sun was high, crossing the fields homeward while the sun went down at the gates of Heaven far away, hearing the whistle of the foreman and his eerie cry across the helds; in the whiteness of winter when hogs and turkeys and geese were slaughtered, and lights burned bright in the big house, and Bathsheba, the cook, sent over in a napkin bits of ham and chicken and cakes left…†   (source)
  • CROMWELL You're the Foreman of the Jury.†   (source)
  • When the foreman read the verdict"Not guilty"— Connie shrieked.†   (source)
  • Foreman, have you arrived at a verdict?" asked Judge Oliver.†   (source)
  • We see JURY FOREMAN as he continues to read.†   (source)
  • This foreman was fair and strong and had a stark, afflicted countenance.†   (source)
  • A moment later, a worker ran in and said something urgently to the foreman.†   (source)
  • Whenever the foreman came near, my father told me, 'Look down.†   (source)
  • "You missed going to the foreman's office last night.†   (source)
  • The foreman drags a red cloth across his black forehead, his lips, his neck.†   (source)
  • Some union men chased a foreman off mine property yesterday.†   (source)
  • The jury foreman was electrocuted in a freak accident.†   (source)
  • The foreman stood up, raised his glass, and said 'Here's to the swine!'†   (source)
  • "I've been guarding the door, Sir, and neither Shirley nor Foreman Flacutono have escaped.†   (source)
  • WITHOUT SHAWN AS FOREMAN, Dad's construction business dwindled.†   (source)
  • For a moment the prisoner-foreman watched them from the doorway.†   (source)
  • The foreman indicated that the jurors were ready, so Ed Soames led them to the courtroom.†   (source)
  • I did not know his name, but I recognized him as the foreman of the scene shop.†   (source)
  • As he heard the foreman begin, he closed his eyes and leaned his head back.†   (source)
  • He knew what the foreman had to say before he even parted his lips.†   (source)
  • The foreman said I scared the other workers.†   (source)
  • DAD was up at the mine all that evening, inside working with his foreman doing safety inspections.†   (source)
  • Madam Foreman, have you arrived at a verdict?†   (source)
  • What're you doing here!" the foreman hollered.†   (source)
  • The thin-faced foreman from Dad's theater was right in front of me.†   (source)
  • Fitzgerald labored alongside his men and tangled with the foremen to protect them.†   (source)
  • "Give them to me," Foreman Flacutono snapped, and grabbed the pots out of the girls' hands.†   (source)
  • "What now?" the foreman wondered unhappily.†   (source)
  • "Now you look like a mine foreman," he said after another critical assessment.†   (source)
  • The foreman pointed at my soiled pants and laughed, and the other workers laughed, too.†   (source)
  • The man who replaced him, Foreman Flacutono, is very mean.†   (source)
  • I could not think of those meetings without thinking of the scene-shop foreman's icy stare.†   (source)
  • He fired the foreman responsible for failing to properly support the roof of his section.†   (source)
  • "Get up, you lazy, smelly things!" cried the foreman in an odd-sounding voice.†   (source)
  • "What now?" moaned the construction foreman.†   (source)
  • Violet cried, struggling in the grips of Shirley and Foreman Flacutono.†   (source)
  • The foreman of the work party saw us and came over.†   (source)
  • "You caught him!" the foreman exclaimed breathlessly.†   (source)
  • The black face under the white foreman's helmet was my uncle Robert, Mom's brother.†   (source)
  • "I don't know what you mean, little midget," Foreman Flacutono said, "and I don't care.†   (source)
  • Yeah, but — Well, you're going to be an unemployed foreman if anything like this happens again.†   (source)
  • Sunny asked, which probably meant "What's a foreman?"†   (source)
  • Curly tucked the card into the breast pocket of his foreman shirt.†   (source)
  • It was Leroy Branitt, a. k. a. Curly, the foreman of the Mother Paula's project.†   (source)
  • "No, no," the foreman said, his surgical mask curling into a frown.†   (source)
  • "Yes, you little twerp," Foreman Flacutono was saying.†   (source)
  • Officer Delinko shot the foreman a dirty look before addressing Mr. Muckle.†   (source)
  • She was looking at Foreman Flacutono, and thinking of everything he had said.†   (source)
  • He was very worried that the construction foreman would change his mind and chase after him.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono whirled around, his beady eyes glaring from over his surgical mask.†   (source)
  • Officer Delinko couldn't understand how the foreman could be so casual about burying the owl dens.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono means that the string machine costs a lot of money.†   (source)
  • He scowled when he saw the policeman write down "foreman" instead.†   (source)
  • "The first thing you can do, Baudeliars," Foreman Flacutono said, "is pick up my pots.†   (source)
  • You're the foreman, aren't you, Mr. Branitt?†   (source)
  • Violet's question was interrupted by the sound of Foreman Flacutono's pots being banged together.†   (source)
  • The gate was padlocked; there was no sign of the grumpy bald foreman.†   (source)
  • The foreman claimed he'd been awakened by a noise like someone climbing the fence.†   (source)
  • "Oh, no," Charles said quickly, backing away from Foreman Flacutono.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono threw his pots on the floor, walked over to the tiny green boxes, and grabbed one.†   (source)
  • Next he turned his withering gaze upon the forlorn foreman.†   (source)
  • Officer Delinko was glad it was dark, so that the foreman couldn't see him blush.†   (source)
  • What sort of man would hire a monster like Foreman Flacutono?†   (source)
  • And Foreman Flacutono made his horrendous clanging noise as he banged his pots together.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow he'd stop by the trailer and ask the foreman what was going on.†   (source)
  • "No wonder it was unbelievable that Foreman Flacutono and Shirley acted so horribly.†   (source)
  • Now that the foreman had returned—dressed up in a coat and tie, of all things!†   (source)
  • The foreman's mind was racing feverishly.†   (source)
  • "That's why you're only a foreman," Dr. Orwell replied snobbily.†   (source)
  • "Not your leg, you overgrown midget," Foreman Flacutono said impatiently.†   (source)
  • The crimson drained from the foreman's cheeks.†   (source)
  • "That's right," Foreman Flacutono said, as Klaus reached the log.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono whirled around and stared at Violet in beady rage.†   (source)
  • "Your words will do no good," Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono nodded to Klaus and clanged his pots together again.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono shouted, walking over to the Baudelaire bunk and clanging his pots together again.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said in his muffled voice, walking over to the orphans' bunk.†   (source)
  • They had to wake up to the clanging of pots, and be ordered around by Foreman Flacutono.†   (source)
  • "What a good idea," Foreman Flacutono said the doctor.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono, this is Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono shouted, pointing at Klaus.†   (source)
  • "Well, he'd better learn," Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • "He's the worst foreman the world has ever seen!"†   (source)
  • "Too bad for you," Foreman Flacutono said, shrugging at Klaus.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono quickly grabbed her other arm, and the eldest Baudelaire found herself trapped.†   (source)
  • "I don't know what you're talking about," Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • "A foreman," Klaus explained, "is somebody who supervises workers.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said it was very important.†   (source)
  • The terrible foreman was right, of course.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said, and clanged his pots together again.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said, pushing his stringy white wig out of his eyes.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said, striding over to the orphans.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said, and stuck his foot out again.†   (source)
  • The guy we used to have, Foreman Firstein, was O.K. But last week he stopped showing up.†   (source)
  • They had long ago given up trying to convince Foreman Flacutono that they weren't midgets.†   (source)
  • "Well, well, well," Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • "Well, all right," said Foreman Flacutono, and his beady little eyes grew even darker than usual.†   (source)
  • We see the foreman all the time, but never the owner.†   (source)
  • He needs a replacement pair, Foreman Flacutono.†   (source)
  • But it was the foreman's head that was the most unpleasant.†   (source)
  • The foreman looked down, as though he had just delivered a death sentence to one of his own.†   (source)
  • They ran to the ranch house and notified the ranch foreman.†   (source)
  • He was a foreman at the Stride Rite factory in Roxbury.†   (source)
  • It wasn't the divinity from the foreman's wife that made him sick.†   (source)
  • The foreman fetched Babcock and they rushed to the scene.†   (source)
  • The foreman was right: those were stormy years.†   (source)
  • Why the construction foreman and some of the workers?†   (source)
  • The foreman who'd given us the scraggly row rushed over to see what was going on.†   (source)
  • Franek, the foreman, put me in a corner.†   (source)
  • None of the foremen was in sight, nor the superintendent, so the prisoners kept their firewood.†   (source)
  • We don't want to make the mistake of judging the worker by his foreman.†   (source)
  • The foreman didn't get that information, so he blasted anyway.†   (source)
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