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street sweeper
n. a machine gun. In my neighborhood, the sound of street sweepers is about as common as the sound of horns honking.
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Liberal Democrat councillor Nigel Howells' Adamsdown ward is within Zone 2, but he wants the street sweepers reinstated on their rounds.
The Street Sweeper is neither as experimental as Seven Types, nor does it match the artistry of the novels of Dickens and Irving.
To create the Sentinel, Tennant upgraded its popular 830II street sweeper with 50 material changes, including a new engine that meets global emission standards.
The inaugural novella, a gritty piece written by Ronnin Ro titled Street Sweeper tells the story of a hit man who accidentally kills a little girl, then decides to turn his life around.
This added feature makes the extra cost of the vacuum street sweepers more reasonable.
The department has been boosted by the arrival of the town's new street sweeper, which was approved at the spring town meeting.
London, June 30 (ANI): A British psychologist has stated that mothers have a lower status in society than street sweepers, making them feel unvalued.
But they won't be feeling nearly as sick as the thousands of street sweepers who will have the headache of cleaning up chip papers, pizza boxes, broken bottles, used condoms, cigarette ends, vomit and urine left by revellers.
A man with a label and number rather than a name, Equality 7-2521, toils as a street sweeper in a future city where a regimented form of governance has held sway for centuries.
A STREET sweeper saved two men from a blazing building - then carried on with his rounds.
Street sweeper Darren Taylor, from Brighton, will be brushing up on romance when he turns up to marry cleaner Teresa Patrick - in his dustcart.
The Law Offices of Nicholas Koluncich III, LLC is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty by the Board of Directors of Bio-Reference Laboratories (BRLI) brought to light by troubling allegations in "The Street Sweeper.
5 T, - a van sheet vehicle - a truck 4x2 16 T type system equipped AMPLIROLL polybenne- or a supporting frame designed for 4x2 16 T street sweeper equipment 6 M3- a street sweeper with a capacity of 6 m3.
When he finally retired in 1977, he was the last street sweeper employed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts still cleaning streets by hand.
London, July 23 (ANI): A Brit topless model has revealed that along with her modelling career she loves to get down and dirty by working as a street sweeper by day.
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