(1) To pay the bills, the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture graduate took a job as a North Sea roustabout , the labourer of the oil industry.(2) Marquez had worked in the business as a roustabout - u2018a flunky,u2019 he says - since he was a teenager paying his way through the Harvard of geosciences, the Colorado School of Mines.(3) 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.(4) He was a roustabout , he herded sheep, he was a streetcar motorman.(5) The race quickly becomes a contest between Borghese's Italia and the Spyker, driven by a Dutch circus roustabout .(6) In the days before her wedding, after college graduation, she finds herself being drawn into the classic u2018torrid affairu2019 with a roustabout at a carnival.(7) u2018He was a roustabout with a traveling carnival,u2019 my grandmother had told me just before she had died.(8) You never know whether you're talking to a roustabout or someone with a PhD in physical science.(9) He had a rich and varied career, as fairground boxer, circus roustabout , cartoonist, poster designer, trades-union journal editor, television presenter, and towards the end of his life, psychotherapist.(10) The bump-backs cascade down the hierarchy of skills and seniority; the roustabouts and roughnecks in lesser-skilled positions and typically of recent hire go walking.(11) It's the place of choice for all sorts of hard-living roustabouts who come into town to blow off a little steam after long days, weeks or even months of toil in the mines and lumber camps.(12) The simple graphic, though it may perpetuate the hopes and expectations of unemployed roughnecks and roustabouts , masks a more complex story.(13) A rig could be brought from Singapore or Perth and there would be opportunities for Hawke's Bay people to work on it as roustabouts and engineers.(14) I hear, the boss took on two new roustabouts this morning to help with the canvas crew.(15) Few neighborhood rituals in Manhattan are more beguiling than to be present as roustabouts pump helium into the balloons that give such a childlike lift to the Macy's parade.(16) This was a dangerous area, but the skilled roughnecks and the roustabouts went about their business with seamless teamwork.
