Obama certainly did instantly seek maximum political advantage and rather laid it on with a trowel.

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It suggests carrying a small trowel to make the task of digging a hole to bury waste easier.

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Then, using a garden trowel, I spooned as many of the survivors as I could back into the boxes.

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Please hold your fork like a pencil, not like a trowel.

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It will also be interesting to see if Mr Obama will be stern rather than laying on the love with a trowel as he did in Jerusalem when he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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It occupies a place of honor in the 1, 200-square-foot Rose Museum on the hall's second floor, not far from Fitzgerald's spectacles, the trowel used to lay Carnegie's cornerstone and most precious a ticket from the opening-night concert, May 5, 1891.

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