Immigrants helped lay the railroads and build our cities, calloused hand by calloused hand.

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Naomi Darg would spend her days doling out lotion to the women of the village to soothe their calloused hands.

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But all that cash, handed over in crumpled wads by calloused hands, has made Western Union a tempting target for regulators, politicians and advocates for the indigent.

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The aid sceptics some of them veterans of the industry, their palms calloused from many previous bouts of hand-wringing over Africa have all the best lines in the debate.

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"We've all been sufficiently calloused, " Mr. Gordon says.

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Tender, creamy and finished with a tasteful flurry of poppy seeds, the dish in front of me was more like a charming and coddled European paramour arrived to vie with the square-jawed, calloused-handed Yankee hash for my affections.

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And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

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