workingman
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Kuhn quotes the estimable Pete Hamill as observing back then that the workingman “feels trapped and, even worse, in a society that purports to be democratic, ignored.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
They want the moribund broadsheet to trounce the Daily Mail and become the voice of the British workingman.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
Bruno Sammartino was pro wrestling’s workingman champion and longtime box-office draw.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
It’s what a workingman might eat standing up while his daintier compatriots nibble on nigiri at a proper sushi bar; sushi that occasionally improves in a 7-Eleven refrigerator case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2017
People in motor cars will always give the workingman a lift to Dublin.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
By 1842, thousands of workingmen were rallying in Independence Square in Philadelphia to lament “the want of employment among the industrious classes.”
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
Democrats were also popular among farmers, artisans, and urban workingmen who feared that economic change could end their opportunities and independence.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Like many of his peers, Sargent believed that the bodies of workingmen were deformed by their efforts, made asymmetrical and even weak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2016
Owen’s plan was to welcome everyone, even to the point of encouraging workingmen to visit in the evening, and to devote most of the museum’s space to public displays.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
