sandhog

I have always been very proud that my father was a sandhog.

Mr. Blaize says he is a sandhog because his father was one.

To free him, a sandhog sawed his foot off with a pocket knife.

The sandhog tugged agitatedly at the ring in his ear.

Approximately one sandhog dies for every mile of tunnel they deliver.

Ordained in 1938 Father Carey was often called the "sandhog priest."

He is a "sandhog," drilling and blasting away underground.

A young sandhog, incredulous, said, "They're going down there?"

My father worked on various sandhog jobs until World War II.

One sandhog reportedly died after drilling into undetonated dynamite.

Brian Thorne, 33, for example, is a third-generation sandhog who grew up in England.

When notices of sandhog deaths are posted in the Hog House, men often don't recognize the names.

The giant drill has made their job safer, but it has also cut deeply into the sandhog workforce over the past decade.

Accompanying text was provided by former Sandhog and novelist, Thomas Kelly.

Those seeking employment will know in advance what dangers they are getting into, as does a police officer, or a sandhog or a window washer.

My aunt married another sandhog.

Jack, this is Fatso Konski-the best sandhog in four planets."

And with one well-placed bomb, the top British sandhog and his superior were eliminated from the region."

For anyone who has ever wondered what might lurk below the city's streets, it offers a sandhog's view of New York's innards.

One sandhog, Jim O'Donnell, a brakeman on the small train, said the event filled him with pride.

Billy Adare, one of the principal characters, is a sandhog working on the tunnel whose father was killed in the early stages of its construction.

Perhaps the biggest and most busty was a musical called "Sandhog," much of which took place in a tunnel beneath the Hudson River.

My father lost the farm and we came to New York, he was a sandhog on the Moses Tunnel when they were building it."

In March, he said, he went to work for several weeks underground as a sandhog on the gigantic water tunnel that is now under construction beneath the city.

The life of a sandhog tunneling under a river can be fascinating until you have to listen to a play-by-play of every shovel load of muck.