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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
  • Dad walked away cursing, exasperated, but probably thinking that Shawn would get tired and go back to being foreman before supper.†   (source)
  • The foreman, Mr. Tomlinson, handed a small piece of paper to the bailiff, who passed it to the judge.†   (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)
  • And he didn't look like a construction foreman.†   (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)
  • The foreman hands a piece of paper to the clerk, who reads the verdict aloud: "We find the defendant guilty of murder."†   (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)
  • She reads about how his broken body was thrown on the back of a pickup by the white foreman.†   (source)
  • There were two other people running-John Foreman and Maggie Brown.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It was hard for me to keep my mind off Dad and the scene-shop foreman's threats.†   (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)
  • Foreman Flacutono threw his pots on the floor, walked over to the tiny green boxes, and grabbed one.†   (source)
  • They gave some of their nickels and dimes to the foreman as they left but by then their smiles was over.†   (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)
  • We walked in a column in rows of four abreast, under the command of Jewish foremen, guarded by two SS men.†   (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)
  • For the supernaturally inclined, the death of the jury foreman alone offered sufficient proof.†   (source)
  • The foreman's name, I learned, was Moorman and he had been headmaster of a Roman Catholic boys' school.†   (source)
  • The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish.†   (source)
  • Or alternatively the knifing of a native foreman by a migrant or a fight among rival groups of migrants.†   (source)
  • Freud gives the example of the shop foreman who was to propose a toast to the boss.†   (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)
  • The foreman, Mr. Elton Mott, was especially Godless.†   (source)
  • He was the foreman's son and, to differentiate him from his father and grandfather, had been named Pedro Tercero Garcia.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Your family moved to Stockholm when your father got the job as the workshop foreman at Zarinder's Mechanical.†   (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)
  • "I brushed my teeth with my finger after the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire, " Murray said.†   (source)
  • The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based in part on the injury rate of their workers.†   (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)
  • Eric Foreman, Daily World.†   (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)
  • Their foreman replied: "We have, Your Honor."†   (source)
  • My foreman died, south of Fort Worth.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Mr. Freeman was a foreman in the Southern Pacific yards and came home late sometimes, after Mother had gone out.†   (source)
  • Ted, our foreman, was an older man who reminded me of my grandfather.†   (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)
  • Rasmussen leaned forward in an expectant frown as the jury foreman—a middle-aged Mystic—stood and read the verdict aloud.†   (source)
  • Pop and the prison foreman she worked for, a well-liked guy whose office was full of plants, took holiday meals seriously.†   (source)
  • There was so much chatter about the case that the foreman, Nevin Dark, felt compelled to remind them that His Honor frowned on what they were doing.†   (source)
  • One of my brothers-in-law was a roofing foreman.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Brother, who's your foreman?†   (source)
  • They are under the watchful eye of Mr. Miller, their foreman, while we are never without a chaperone.†   (source)
  • He came upon the driver of America and its foreman, John Dorsey.†   (source)
  • Goldreich and Mandela were joined by other workers, including a foreman, Mr. Jelliman, a retired white who supported the anti-apartheid movement.†   (source)
  • Bryan learned that the foreman's name was Al and he'd worked for the road commission for twenty-two years.†   (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)
  • As a rig foreman, he had detailed survey maps of the oil fields surrounding town, including the badlands.†   (source)
  • And most of the foremen, too.†   (source)
  • He is now employed as a foreman in the locomotive shop at BNSF, the train company.†   (source)
  • The foreman for that operation requested the special permit and it was received.†   (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)
  • Phil was a notorious foreman on the duck-call assembly line.†   (source)
  • The red-faced white man came back with a foreman, and took charge of everything.†   (source)
  • "She's smarter than some men I could name," he told his foreman.†   (source)
  • The foreman of one plant in Mobile, a large brute, allowed me to tell him what I could do.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL You're the Foreman of the Jury.†   (source)
  • As usual, the old foreman, Piotr Khudoleiev, was walloping his young apprentice Yusupka.†   (source)
  • My foreman's in town with the station wagon.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 over by the white folks?†   (source)
  • No wonder it was unbelievable that Foreman Flacutono and Shirley acted so horribly.†   (source)
  • "Give them to me," Foreman Flacutono snapped, and grabbed the pots out of the girls' hands.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said in his muffled voice, walking over to the orphans' bunk.†   (source)
  • "I don't know what you're talking about," Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said, and clanged his pots together again.†   (source)
  • "Keep pushing, you lucky midget," Foreman Flacutono said, and Violet knew in an instant.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono means that the string machine costs a lot of money.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono shouted, pointing at Klaus.†   (source)
  • "Not your leg, you overgrown midget," Foreman Flacutono said impatiently.†   (source)
  • "That's why you're only a foreman," Dr. Orwell replied snobbily.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono whirled around, his beady eyes glaring from over his surgical mask.†   (source)
  • "Your words will do no good," Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • She was looking at Foreman Flacutono, and thinking of everything he had said.†   (source)
  • Violet cried, struggling in the grips of Shirley and Foreman Flacutono.†   (source)
  • "I don't know what you mean, little midget," Foreman Flacutono said, "and I don't care.†   (source)
  • "Well, well, well," Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said it was very important.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono nodded to Klaus and clanged his pots together again.†   (source)
  • They had long ago given up trying to convince Foreman Flacutono that they weren't midgets.†   (source)
  • What sort of man would hire a monster like Foreman Flacutono?†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono whirled around and stared at Violet in beady rage.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono quickly grabbed her other arm, and the eldest Baudelaire found herself trapped.†   (source)
  • "Well, he'd better learn," Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • I've been guarding the door, Sir, and neither Shirley nor Foreman Flacutono have escaped.†   (source)
  • "What a good idea," Foreman Flacutono said the doctor.†   (source)
  • "That's right," Foreman Flacutono said, as Klaus reached the log.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said, pushing his stringy white wig out of his eyes.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said, and stuck his foot out again.†   (source)
  • The terrible foreman was right, of course.†   (source)
  • "No, no," the foreman said, his surgical mask curling into a frown.†   (source)
  • "Well, all right," said Foreman Flacutono, and his beady little eyes grew even darker than usual.†   (source)
  • They had to wake up to the clanging of pots, and be ordered around by Foreman Flacutono.†   (source)
  • He needs a replacement pair, Foreman Flacutono.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono asked, and tore his white wig off with one smooth motion.†   (source)
  • "Too bad for you," Foreman Flacutono said, shrugging at Klaus.†   (source)
  • "Yes, you little twerp," Foreman Flacutono was saying.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said, striding over to the orphans.†   (source)
  • Jim Whitehurst eased beside him, took a puff, and said, "What do you think, Mr. Foreman?"†   (source)
  • "You, too, midgets!" the foreman shouted, and the children found room among the adults to scrape away at the tree.†   (source)
  • "I would just like to talk to these children for a few more minutes, Foreman Flacutono," Charles said.†   (source)
  • Finally, as the employees finished their fourteenth log, Foreman Flacutono banged his pots together and shouted, "Lunch break!"†   (source)
  • "LUCKY!" bellowed a new voice from the doorway, and everyone—including Violet, Klaus, Sunny, and Foreman Flacutono—turned around.†   (source)
  • They sat there like that, a heap of Baudelaires, until Foreman Flacutono clanged his pots together to signal the end of the break.†   (source)
  • And when they took an even better look, peeking from behind Foreman Flacutono, they saw that the bundle was Charles.†   (source)
  • After a few days of sawing, Foreman Flacutono ordered Phil to start up the machine with the enormous ball of string inside.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono must have used it when Klaus caused the first accident, the one that broke Phil's leg.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono dropped his pots and ran over to the controls of the stamping machine, pushing the dazed Klaus aside.†   (source)
  • The Baudelaires followed Foreman Flacutono into the lumbermill and saw that it was all one huge room, filled with enormous machines.†   (source)
  • It is a mean trick, and it is easy to do, and I'm sorry to say that Foreman Flacutono did it to Klaus right at this moment.†   (source)
  • Where did you—" Violet's question was interrupted by the sound of Foreman Flacutono's pots being banged together.†   (source)
  • It would have been just like Count Olaf to get himself hired as an employee, and snatch the orphans away while Foreman Flacutono wasn't looking.†   (source)
  • "If you don't pick up the pots this instant," Foreman Flacutono said, "you will get no chewing gum for lunch."†   (source)
  • Even a boarding school sounded like it would be better than their days with Foreman Flacutono, Dr. Orwell, and the evil Shirley.†   (source)
  • "Lucky!" the eldest Baudelaire shouted, not bothering to hide the word in a sentence, as the foreman did.†   (source)
  • Klaus was standing at the controls of the sawing machine in his bare feet, staring at the foreman with his wide, blank eyes.†   (source)
  • Sunny shrieked, but Foreman Flacutono began banging his pots together before anyone could realize what she meant.†   (source)
  • Unless you'd like to tell Sir that—" "Oh, no," Charles said quickly, backing away from Foreman Flacutono.†   (source)
  • And it was the way Foreman Flacutono presented himself that made the orphans want to jump back into their bunks.†   (source)
  • Sir reached forward and opened the door to reveal Shirley and Foreman Flacutono sitting quietly at two tables near the window.†   (source)
  • "I put Shirley and Foreman Flacutono in the library, and asked Phil to keep an eye on them," Sir said.†   (source)
  • But once they got a good look at Foreman Flacutono they wanted to hop back into their bunks and pull the covers over their heads.†   (source)
  • The whirring sound continued, and Foreman Flacutono kept on clanging his pots, but that wasn't the loudest sound that the two girls heard.†   (source)
  • Klaus shouted, but Foreman Flacutono had begun to clang his pots together, and Charles shook his head to indicate he couldn't hear.†   (source)
  • Sunny shrieked, which meant something along the lines of "You're not just a bad foreman—you're an evil person!"†   (source)
  • Without another word he stood up, disentangled himself from his siblings, and walked toward Foreman Flacutono while his sisters looked on amazedly.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono, let's both pull!†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono was standing near the entrance, with his back to the two girls, pointing a finger and giving an order.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono whispered something to Klaus, who walked slowly over to the machine covered in smokestacks and began to operate its controls.†   (source)
  • The pinchers picked up the tree on top of the stack and began lowering it to the ground, while Foreman Flacutono banged his pots together and shouted, "The debarkers!†   (source)
  • As Sunny struggled with Dr. Orwell, Violet struggled with Shirley and Foreman Flacutono, and poor Charles struggled with the saw, Klaus remembered the part of the fishing process known as casting.†   (source)
  • The eldest Baudelaire realized that Foreman Flacutono must have used the command word just now, and she was trying to remember everything that he had said.†   (source)
  • But it was difficult to speak to him over the whirring of the string machine and the clanging of Foreman Flacutono's pots, and Klaus never answered them.†   (source)
  • "Let's not split hairs," the foreman said, using an expression which here means "argue over something that's not at "You've been in on this all the time!"†   (source)
  • "Good," the foreman said shortly.†   (source)
  • So each morning, when Foreman Flacutono clanged his pots together to wake everyone up, the Baudelaires took a good look at him to see if Count Olaf had taken his place.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono's nose was all curled up under the mask, like an alligator hiding in the mud, and when he spoke the Baudelaires could see his mouth opening and closing behind the cloth.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono banged his pots together again and pointed at the door, and the children stepped out of the noisy room into the quiet of the courtyard.†   (source)
  • The only reason Foreman Flacutono could have for wearing a surgical mask would be to frighten people, and as he peered down at the Baudelaire orphans they were quite frightened indeed.†   (source)
  • It is perfectly proper to wear these masks in hospitals, of course, to stop the spreading of germs, but it makes no sense if you are the foreman of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill.†   (source)
  • As soon as Foreman Flacutono began clanging his pots together, Klaus opened his eyes and asked where in the world he was, and Violet and Sunny did not feel better at all.†   (source)
  • "It's unbelievable," Charles said, "that Foreman Flacutono grabbed me in the middle of the night, and tied me to that log, in order to get ahold of the Baudelaire fortune.†   (source)
  • The Baudelaires had only a few seconds to be curious about these machines, however, before Foreman Flacutono began clanging his two pots together and barking out orders.†   (source)
  • The Baudelaires had no idea what Foreman Flacutono meant by stamping, and thought maybe it involved jumping up and down on the boards for some reason, like stamping on ants.†   (source)
  • "I hate log days," one of the employees grumbled, but everyone followed Foreman Flacutono out of the dormitory and across the dirt-floored courtyard to the lumbermill, which was a dull gray building with many smokestacks sticking out of the top like a porcupine's quills.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono clanged his pots together again, and the employees crowded around the tree and began scraping against it with their debarkers, filing the bark off each tree as you or I might file our nails.†   (source)
  • Klaus went over to pick up the pots, but halfway there Foreman Flacutono stuck his foot out, playing the same trick he had played the previous day, and I'm sorry to tell you that it worked just as well.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono was bald, as bald as an egg, but rather than admit to being bald like sensible people do, he had purchased a curly white wig that made it look like he had a bunch of large dead worms all over his head.†   (source)
  • But Foreman Flacutono always had the same dark and beady eyes, which didn't look a thing like Count Olaf's shiny ones, and he always spoke in his rough, muffled voice, which was the opposite of the smooth, snarly voice of Count Olaf.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono shouted.†   (source)
  • But, more important, they couldn't help wondering how Klaus knew how to work the stamping machine, and why Foreman Flacutono was having their brother at the controls, instead of Phil or one of the other employees.†   (source)
  • He looked at the machine and just saw a deadly device, but he knew that if Violet were in this corner of the mill, and not getting sore armpits from Shirley and Foreman Flacutono, she would see a way to help them out of their situation.†   (source)
  • She and her sister had known, in the moment he started defining a word for the employees, that Klaus was back to normal, but who knew what word caused him, that afternoon, to suddenly stop following Foreman Flacutono's orders?†   (source)
  • Violet and Sunny took a few more steps forward, near enough that they could reach out and touch Foreman Flacutono—not that they wanted to do such a disgusting thing, of course— and saw their brother.†   (source)
  • "You, you lucky midget," Violet remembered the foreman had said, "will be operating the machine," and Klaus had said "Yes, sir" in that faint, hypnotized voice, the same voice he had used before he had gone to sleep just the previous night.†   (source)
  • They waved good-bye to Charles, and walked slowly to the waiting bundle of boards, with Foreman Flacutono walking behind them, and at that moment one of the children had a trick played on him which I hope has never been played on you.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono asked.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono said.†   (source)
  • Foreman Flacutono barked.†   (source)
  • Instead he walked into the city's grid, passing the men in jumpsuits, nodding to them like a foreman.†   (source)
  • When the foreman read the verdict"Not guilty"— Connie shrieked.†   (source)
  • Mr. Foreman, is it correct that the jury has reached a verdict?†   (source)
  • The jury foreman was electrocuted in a freak accident.†   (source)
  • For a moment the prisoner-foreman watched them from the doorway.†   (source)
  • The foreman was right: those were stormy years.†   (source)
  • The foreman drags a red cloth across his black forehead, his lips, his neck.†   (source)
  • Whenever the foreman came near, my father told me, 'Look down.†   (source)
  • The foreman came back and knelt down by the water tank.†   (source)
  • A moment later, a worker ran in and said something urgently to the foreman.†   (source)
  • The foreman stood up, raised his glass, and said 'Here's to the swine!'†   (source)
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