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Odessa also became tough and quick-fisted, filled with men who hardly needed a high school diploma, much less a college one, to become roughnecks and tool pushers on an oil rig. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
We’re a few untried roughnecks with rifles and a bunch of Negroes with reasonably sharp knives. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
An intellectual roughneck—that’s what one teacher had called him a while back. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
The people around us were hard-working, boisterous, a little proud of their nickname, yo-go-re, which meant literally uncouth one, or roughneck, or dead-end kid. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
He thought of the roughnecks blocking his way at the school. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
I mark time by the flares the tinkerer fires, and the third one has just gone up when to my left one of the roughnecks goes down, screaming as the dead begin to devour him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
George W. Bush, born in Connecticut to a life of unexampled privilege, cultivated in his dress and mannerisms the ethos of a Texan roughneck rather than the Yalie he is. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
There are only about thirty of us in all, mostly Negroes, with a few of the younger roughnecks to round out the ranks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
The project brought in Purdue engineers, crews of Texas roughnecks, and their families, who lived outside Léopoldville in a strange city called Little America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
In this Attic roughneck polity, you can think of Plato—with his radical idealism, intellectual rigidity, and hatred of the mob— as a sort of ancient precursor to Conservative MP Enoch Powell. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
Even the roughnecks are looking hungry and perturbed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
A roughneck in coveralls stepped out of the crowd and faced the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z
People in the crowd, mostly the white men at the tables full of roughnecks, are nodding and murmuring in assent. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z
Minnie is an over-the-top, bravura role, a frontier woman of independence, strength and tenderness in a community of foul-mouthed roughnecks. Puccini's `La Fanciulla del West' turns 100 2010-12-11T15:39:00Z
But A Boogie’s sound acknowledges the youthful power of the internet and the now-default inclusion of melody in hip-hop while still being rooted in old-fashioned New York roughneck business. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Modernizes New York Hip-Hop 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z
Spencer Tracy, in his second feature, stars as “Bugs” Raymond, a shrewd, cocky roughneck who rises from working-stiff truck driver to the ruling racket boss of an unnamed Midwestern metropolis. In ‘Quick Millions,’ a Young Spencer Tracy Knocks ‘Em Dead 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z
Lee’s play is hilarious, depicting the three grown brothers and their father gathered for Christmas as happy roughnecks pummeling each other and swapping crude insults. ‘Straight White Men’ hits a sweet spot — and a nerve — at Studio Theatre 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z
For such a roughneck guy, he excels at tender ballads, as on "Come See Me" and the spiritually oriented title song, which features the Harlem Gospel Choir. Review: Trace Adkins looks for spark on new album 2013-05-13T16:37:27Z
Dawson’s glowering father and siblings are dentally challenged, gun-toting hillbilly roughnecks who viciously abuse the sensitive Dawson. ‘The Best of Me,’ an Adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks Novel 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z
This is Tank at his best, a proud roughneck who’s broken on the inside. Music Review: Suffering of a Noble, Romantic Soul Man 2010-12-16T06:30:05Z
The problem was that the snooker club and the model-railway club shared the same premises; the rail hobbyists had to pass cue-wielding roughnecks to get to their room. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z
Until then it has presented a pungently realistic vision of an extremely violent and chaotic sport and the roughnecks who devote their lives to it. Movie Review: ?Goon,? Directed by Michael Dowse 2012-03-29T21:23:35Z
The haranguing tone of “Filth,” whose title is Scottish slang for the police, causes the movie to lose its roughneck charm quickly. ‘Filth’ Stars James McAvoy as an Insane Detective 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z
Killer Mike parlayed proximity to Outkast to become a roughneck firebrand. Albums From Jerry Lee Lewis and Daniel Lanois 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z
Add a few of those pieces together, and it’s possible to believe you might have a future as a roughneck. | Self Edge: Jeans Made to Be Tough Enough for the Demanding 2010-04-13T22:37:00Z
He was a tall, well-tailored mixture of Southern gentility and roughneck talk. T Magazine: The Ring Cycle 2011-11-28T15:00:57Z
Bronson was the affectionate, curious circus ringmaster, bringing a fearless palate and roughneck Queens charm to restaurants around the world. Action Bronson, Eater by Trade, Finds a New Craving: Fitness 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z
Wheeling a glass-fronted cabinet towards him is an intimidating desert roughneck with uncompromising facial hair. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z
"Shia's forebears include a long line of counterculture roughnecks and artistes manqués," it revealed. Miley Cyrus has bared her breasts, hoping to break free of Disney 2013-05-02T17:47:50Z
Not only that, but the movie underlines the real reason those roughnecks are out there, risking their lives drilling ever deeper and riskier wells: our bottomless appetite for oil. Why Deepwater Horizon sank at the box office – while Sully soared 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z
Iquitos’s typical visitors are occasional tourists en route to or from the jungle, mining roughnecks, oil company engineers or pilots working for various Amazon resource-extraction concerns. Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z
Playland took over a corner in a roughneck section of the Rockaways that once housed the Tap and Grill clam bar, a block inland from the beach. Boîte: Playland Motel 2013-07-31T22:27:13Z
He kicks off the satisfying second track on the 1991 masterpiece “The Low End Theory” with the immortal “Yo! Microphone check, one two what is this? / The five-foot assassin with the roughneck business.” Phife Dawg: Farewell to the Five-Foot Assassin With the Roughneck Business 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z
Left alone one night Ruth is brutally set upon by three drunken roughnecks. | 'The Great Divide': Frontier Woman?s Desperate Proposition 2011-03-13T22:40:38Z
The film begins with a biography of Kesey, a glamorous, blondish roughneck writer known for his novels “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Sometimes a Great Notion.” | 'Magic Trip': Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters 2011-08-04T19:00:07Z
Critics with narrow cultural comprehension applied the label to Harrison, because he often wrote about roughneck, working class characters in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or on the ranches of Montana. Toxic masculinity doesn’t just target women: The viciousness and vacuity of modern American manhood is also harmful to the self 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z
He also plainly relishes playing the whimsical Cervantes of writer Dale Wasserman’s imagination, jailed during the Inquisition and playacting fables with the roughneck inmates sharing his dungeon. Shakespeare Theater Company’s ‘La Mancha’ lances its mark 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z
He is a bohemian who adores his home in Greenwich Village, but he is also a roughneck. Steve Earle’s outlaw heart 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z
Sonny isn’t entirely toxic, though, even when he’s teaching the young Calogero to roll dice with the foulmouthed, colorfully named roughnecks in a gangland scene out of “Guys and Dolls.” Review | The musical ‘A Bronx Tale’ sings of growing up on mean streets 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z
You could readily accept her portrayal of a virginal, independent frontier woman functioning as a surrogate sister to the roughneck miners who jostle for her attention. Hints of tarnish on Lyric's 'Golden West' 2011-01-24T00:43:00Z
He gets to keep track of both the town vamp and the new influx of Texas roughnecks, hired to do the fracking. Review: With ‘Heat and Light,’ Jennifer Haigh Drills Below the Surface 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z
Dilla shows his mastery of making roughneck, properly heavy music sound beautifully planed. J Dilla: the Mozart of hip-hop 2011-01-27T22:15:00Z
Dale Strickland, her roughneck assailant, is sleeping off the night’s brutality in his truck. Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z
They own the city, these roughnecks whose minds are deep in the gutter and whose language is as ripe as rotten fruit. Unmasking Magic and Murder in the Best New Crime 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z
In his new film, “The Overnighters,” Mr. Moss examines a pastor’s efforts to help roughnecks working in North Dakota oil fields. A Sundance Lineup Laced With Race, Horror and Family Turmoil 2013-12-04T22:27:15Z
Syms grew up in Altadena, a quiet town abutting the mountains east of Los Angeles known as a retreat for roughneck millionaires and an enclave for the Black middle class. The Many Lives of Martine Syms 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z
Kevin, the most tender of the five boys, watches, appalled, as roughnecks in the group beat a passerby; then a cop clobbers him in the head and calls him an animal. “When They See Us” Is Both Memorable Political Art and Misfired Entertainment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z
The rumour circulating widely in Africa that many of the more roughneck types of Chinese incomer are prison labourers is, he says, entirely baseless. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z
Dropped rigs affects the broader oilfield service business and pipelines as the consolidation means less equipment rentals, fewer roughnecks and customers to compete for their business. Exxon-Pioneer tie up could squeeze US shale oil suppliers, pipelines 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z
But De Hoyos isn’t in the Permian to hire engineers for gas rigs or roughnecks to join drilling crews. Big Tech is coming for the oil patch’s workers, and winning 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z
Debra Crawford was a tough, outspoken woman charged with the task of raising a roughneck and two older girls. Terence 'Bud' Crawford finally gets to face Errol Spence Jr. and prove he's no B-side 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z
That it’s a wildly conservative place full of oil roughnecks and cowboys and brash braggarts. Figuring out Texas: From guns to immigration, here’s how one state’s challenges echo the country’s 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z
They will continue getting pushed around and will not be getting through the roughneck, larger teams in their division when it matters down the stretch, and you can forget about any lengthy playoff stays. Letters to Sports: Dave Roberts' decision-making already drawing ire 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z
Bobby Western is a salvage diver, a one-time physics graduate student who hangs out in dive bars with philosophically inclined roughnecks and thieves. Cormac McCarthy, 89, has a new novel — two, actually. And they're almost perfect 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z
Ranchers, wheat-growers, oilfield roughnecks, firefighters, loggers, hunters — in short, the very kinds of guys who populate today's ads for pickup trucks — are widely viewed as the real Americans. Three tons of fascism: MAGA “shock troops” in pickup trucks and “fossil-fuelized aggression” 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z
Most rigs run day and night, with crews of roughnecks rotating in 12-hour shifts. Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z
Cruise often appeared on “Twin Peaks,” singing in its biker bar, the Roadhouse, her soft and gentle presence providing a compelling contrast to the roughneck setting. Julee Cruise, 'Twin Peaks' singer and David Lynch collaborator, dies at 65 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z
“What probably appealed to Alaskans as much as anything was his roughneck character,” Ornstein added in an interview. Don Young, dean of the House of Representatives, dies at 88 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z
“Rednecks and roughnecks get a lot of bad press these days,” Hawley said. At CPAC, Ukraine and Policy Take a Back Seat to Cultural Grievances 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z
They include roughneck oil and gas workers, native fishermen and farmers, small business owners, and thousands of Indigenous people, including members of the 19,000-strong Houma tribe and other Native communities. Hurricane Ida May Spark Mass Migration 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z
In “Stillwater,” Matt Damon plays Bill Baker, an Oklahoma roughneck who works on oil rigs by day and prays before his fast-food dinner at night. Review | ‘Stillwater,’ with Matt Damon, is four movies in one, and only some of them work 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z
He plays an American oil rig roughneck who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she says she did not commit. Cannes Film Festival 2021 highlights: Sun, stars and saliva 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z
“These people were wonderful to us and really helped us,” Mr. Damon said Wednesday of meeting “roughnecks” in both states. Matt Damon: Oil riggers ‘singing church songs’ offered ‘eye-opening’ ‘Stillwater’ research 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z
In early 2017, the Texans for Natural Gas website went live to urge voters to “thank a roughneck” and support fracking. How One Firm Drove Influence Campaigns Nationwide for Big Oil 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z
I’m on my way to meet Joshua Patrick, a recently laid-off 42-year-old “roughneck”, as he proudly refers to himself, and father of five. Lose your job, lose your self? How unemployment hits men's self-esteem 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z
Mr. Lewis experienced his first arrest when police collared the quiet young demonstrators, not the roughnecks who had been knocking them off stools. John Lewis, front-line civil rights leader and eminence of Capitol Hill, dies at 80 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z
He seeks to paint the sport as respectable, countering the critics who think of ballplayers as “roughnecks and ingrates and ne’er do wells.” Review | Gehrig’s ghostwritten newspaper columns offer bromides from baseball great 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z
When workers spend, jobs are created for everyone from airline pilots and cooks to oil well roughnecks and hardware store clerks. Calculating the economic cost of COVID-19: The coronavirus pandemic is going to cost us $5 trillion 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z
“There was an invasion of roughnecks, men without women, who arrived to work the fracking machines,” says Sayles. In ‘Yellow Earth,’ John Sayles catalogs the trouble that flows from the discovery of oil in a remote town 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z
“Let’s say you have ‘roughneck’ tattooed somewhere on yourself or a great big bumper sticker on your great big pickup truck and now there isn’t any work. Lose your job, lose your self? How unemployment hits men's self-esteem 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z
In some ways it was like the oil booms of old: wildcats and roughnecks and speculators. Review: True crime on the reservation, starring an unlikely amateur sleuth 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z
Arnold was just shy of 3 years old when his father left his job as a roughneck on a Montana oil rig and joined the Border Patrol in 1965. In a lifetime on the border, Agent Chancy Arnold has seen it transform 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z
His latest photo book ruminates on his roughneck past and his artful present, photographing the glamorous creations of big names in fashion. Holiday gifts: 9 fashion and style books for your favorite fashionista 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z
In New York City, in the nineteen-seventies, when I was a kid, recreational ice hockey was a curiosity, an obscure pastime of hard-nosed Long Islanders, Massholes, preppies, and Hell’s Kitchen roughnecks. My Year of Concussions 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z
Andrew Jackson was a roughneck frontiersman who rose up on the frontier. Donald Trump's favorite president: Andrew Jackson as father of the "white republic" 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z
After working summers as a Texaco refinery roughneck and a fireman and boiler maintainer for a railroad company, he graduated with a degree in petroleum geology in 1951. T. Boone Pickens, Texas oil tycoon who led legendary corporate raids, dies at 91 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z
“The core of the team was a roughneck group.” An unpaid coach and Bob Marley’s daughter sparked Jamaica’s incredible World Cup run 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z
With High Life, Denis bends science fiction to her will, colonizing a spaceship with roughnecks and chaos agents who couldn’t be further from the sterile, calculating brainiacs who usually get launched into orbit. High Life baffles audience expectations for a space thriller 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z
In Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region within Iraq, he’ll join dozens of other Venezuelan roughnecks who live and work on a remote compound. Oil workers flee Venezuela’s crisis for a better life 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z
The Tigers lived by the notion that football players required a roughneck quality and a deep resolve. Long Before Alabama, the South Had Sewanee 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z
Bush was no roustabout, still less a roughneck. George HW Bush obituary 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z
The allure of the often dangerous life of a roughneck attracted generations of workers from Oklahoma to Wyoming. Oil’s New Technology Spells End of Boom for Roughnecks 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z
The movie, set in 1941, features infuriatingly bigoted villains, from a contemptuous judge to a roughneck mob bent on street violence — and in suburban Connecticut, no less. Opinion | Shocked by the racism of past generations? Look around. 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z
The production agrees; it’s a welter of samples, a mix of orchestral luxury and roughneck drums and guitars. null 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z
Cattle raising is a fundamental part of Texas history: before there were roughnecks, there were cowpokes; before the oil boom, there was the vast King Ranch. A Flying Cowboy Rides to Rescue Cattle Stranded in Harvey’s Floods 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z
This might be a mere footnote to Trump’s story — a celebrity-age version of young Abraham Lincoln’s match against an Illinois roughneck — except for this: The Trump presidency is right out of a WWE script. Opinion | Trump goes back to his professional wrestling days 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z
“My dad was a roughneck on the rig and then moved up the ladder,” he said. Oil’s New Technology Spells End of Boom for Roughnecks 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z
“He would not have liked to be honored by these roughnecks.” The day white Virginia stopped admiring Gen. Robert E. Lee and started worshiping him 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z
He had a girlfriend and worked intermittently as a roughneck in the oil fields. Murder or Self-Defense if Officer Is Killed in Raid? 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z
Yet he feels divided, not quite at ease amid the relative urbanity of Missoula and yet newly estranged from the roughneck camaraderie of the miners, including his father and brother. Kevin Canty’s ‘Underworld’ depicts survival in a toxic small town 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z
In overtime, the Wizards had to mimic this roughneck style. Wizards suffer Brooklyn letdown, but survive to beat Nets in OT, 114-110 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z
Some roughnecks on the offshore rigs of the national oil company, Pemex, have not worked in months, and their voices are filled with anxiety. Can Oil Help Mexico Withstand Trump’s Attack on Trade? It’s Hard to See How 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z
He was allowed to disembark — along with a Sudanese activist, Somali roughneck, the Bangladeshi student, Syrian doctor and Moroccan barista. An overloaded boat, packed with dreams: Hundreds of migrants plucked from a hazardous journey across the Mediterranean 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z
There were hundreds of facilities in the bush—so many that pilots ferrying roughnecks sometimes have to consult illustrated guidebooks. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z
You can call it ‘roughneck,’ kind of people who fight America’s wars. Military needs counterrevolution, reverse social engineering policies, Hunter 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z
In Wyoming’s roughneck culture, the men who work the state’s oil and gas fields are as tough as their name. After the oil fields, an injured worker faces the unknown 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z
The scene is a helpful tutorial for viewers, who for the next hour will be barraged with technical jargon, quick roughneck banter and underwater shots of ominous-looking bubbles and groaning metal. ‘Deepwater Horizon’: Spectacle meets solemnity in portrait of real-world tragedy 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z
At such moments, he is a cartoon roughneck, swatting at his own amusement like a housefly. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z
He said his Second Amendment right allows him to be armed and that he carries to protect his Squaw Valley home from criminals, roughnecks and wildlife. Fresno County pig farmer loses weapons after gun charge 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z
Truckers and young "roughnecks" from the oil fields packed the diner, which is known for its biscuits and gravy and massive portions. A Californian town laid low by cheap oil - BBC News 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z
He was rambling through northwest Colorado in 1976, gathering sounds for a roaming arts festival when a pair of roughnecks picked him up in their truck. After years of improv, the tank in Rangely goes legit 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z
Until recently, oilfield roughnecks were making more than $100,000 a year on average. Special Report: In North Dakota's oil patch, a humbling comedown 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z
Still, the trend toward solar highlights a fundamental change in the U.S. energy mix, with some die-hard roughnecks gravitating toward what is growing: green energy. As Oil Jobs Dry Up, Workers Turn to Solar Sector 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z
Mr. Snider hired a cadre of roughneck fighters after seeing his team of aging retreads and young castoffs humiliated by brawlers like the St. Louis Blues and the Montreal Canadiens. Ed Snider, Flyers Owner Who Made Philadelphia a Hockey Town, Dies at 83 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z
The army of roughnecks, RVs and heavy trucks that washed across South Texas a few years ago is in retreat, battered by crude oil prices that have tumbled from above $100 to below $40. Bust is taking hold in the oil patch 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z
The pain also hurt steel-pipe makers in Illinois, stores in North Dakota selling gear to roughnecks and home sales in Houston. Year in Review: No Breakout for Economy, but Jobs, Earnings Grew 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
Although smallish, he had no problem mixing it up with the league’s roughnecks. Dickie Moore, a Feisty Piece of a Canadiens Dynasty, Dies at 84 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z
Shell is staffed more by boffins than roughnecks, who pride themselves on their ability to overcome great challenges with technology. A rig too far 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z
It's also a not-too-subtle message that the Republican congressman remembers where he came from — a gritty town built by ranchers and roughnecks, and bypassed by big city folks speeding along Interstate 5. Central Valley sees hope in Rep. Kevin McCarthy's potential rise 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z
The son of an oilfield roughneck who was constantly looking for work, he moved 47 times before starting high school in Bakersfield. Frank Gifford dies at 84; Pro Football Hall of Famer, TV sportscaster 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z
Despite their illicit exploits, these roughnecks don three-piece suits, natty caps and crisp collars, making them TV’s sharpest dressed gang. TV Guides: Where to Find Style Inspiration on the Small Screen 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z
Initial rounds of layoffs this year tended to be blue-collar jobs, such as roughnecks on drilling sites, fracking crews and workers at industrial-equipment manufacturers. Sudden Drop in Crude-Oil Prices Roils U.S. Energy Firms’ Rebound 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z
Over the next four years, Roshto would work his way up the ladder to lead roughneck. Short portraits of 11 who died on the Deepwater Horizon 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z
Hotels, truck stops and housing subdivisions were to follow, all catering to truck drivers and roughnecks. Texas city that prepared for oil boom now waits for bust 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z
Each rig represents about 100 jobs, from roughneck field hands to maintenance workers, and the current rig count is down 85, or 5 percent, from a recent peak in late 2014. U.S. Oil Producers Cut Rigs as Price Declines 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z
For generations the remote terrain of Scandinavian and German stock, Watford City now attracts roughnecks and roustabouts, geologists and engineers. As North Dakota Oil Town Booms, a Priest Steadies the Newcomers 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z
“It was a little bit of a roughneck joint,” Gibson says. Town’s tavern is part of Civil War football lore 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z
The biggest seller these days: Ford’s F-150 pickup, in high demand from the legions of roughnecks and ranchers making good money off the Texas oil boom. Forbes 400: The Richest People In Texas, 2014 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z
He’d worked in the oil industry, first as a roughneck at age 15, then as president of his own oil- and gas-production business. Citizen Potawatomi Nation reverses decline through strong leaders, entrepreneurship
Highlighting the risks, a Chevron Corp natural gas well in eastern Pennsylvania exploded earlier this year while roughnecks were preparing to run tubing down the well, killing one. Walking, 'talking' drilling rigs aim to modernize fracking 2014-04-15T10:45:50Z
Waist-deep in pits of crude oil, longyi-clad roughnecks burrow a living from black gold in the most improbable of landscapes. Burma's smalltime oil barons 2013-11-04T06:20:27Z
We've seen all those ruddy, beefy faces, those sweetheart roughnecks, gritty, profane, bawdy, brave. 9/11 Retrospective: A Year Of Living Gratefully 2013-09-10T04:00:00Z
Who are the roughnecks doing the dirty work to get data pipelines flowing, unpacking bytes, transforming formats, loading databases? Data Science News Roundup: Becoming A Profession At $300/Hour 2013-06-03T17:02:50Z
She described how roughneck inmates violently imposed the guards’ will in return for reduced sentences. Changing of the Guard: Chinese Opposition to Labor Camps Widens 2012-12-15T02:57:49Z
He is described as "an elegant roughneck" of around 30, and there are mentions of his tanned skin, closely trimmed hair and a penchant for pink suits. Train companies can't be held responsible for rising fares 2012-07-07T23:05:57Z
The roughnecks of the gas industry drowse in their parkas to the restful cadence of the helicopter blades clipping overhead. Gazprom's Empire at the End of the Earth 2012-02-09T23:00:17Z
Sure enough, from the roughnecks at the bottom of the industry hierarchy to the executives at the top, the fellowship attracted a growing number of members. On Religion: Oilfield Christian Fellowship Aims for Spirits and Souls of Workers 2011-11-04T15:03:59Z
Never mind that while an authentic Texas roughneck, Tommy Lee was Al Gore’s Harvard roommate. The bully the GOP has been waiting for 2011-08-18T01:01:00Z
“Singing and dancing for these roughnecks is far beneath you.” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
And some of these roughneck humourists will congratulate us on golf becoming one of the vital, red-blooded sports! Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z
When I sat here having him talk to me last night I had that dreadful inferior feeling again, felt as though I weren't up to the standard of good women that these roughnecks hold. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z
I guess we're a terrible lot of roughnecks out here on the Coast, Miss Lee—not onto fine points like that. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z
Mr. Clements, the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction, became involved in politics in the late 1960s after rising from oilfield roughneck to become a wealthy partner in a large offshore drilling company, Sedco. Bill Clements Dies at 94; Set Texas on G.O.P. Path 2011-05-31T01:14:44Z
But I expect one cabaret is about like another in these roughneck towns.” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
“Get a move on, you roughnecks” And they grinned more widely in sheer delight at his rough ordering. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z
Several of his colleagues said he worked on fishing boats in Alaska and was a roughneck on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, losing a fingertip in an accident. All-Star Teams in Bonds Case: The Lawyers 2011-03-20T18:32:26Z
"Good old roughnecks," he said to them, with an intuitive understanding. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z
He wasn’t a strong looking fellow, And roughnecks played ball in those days; The ballgamers christened him “Yellow” Because of his mild, timid ways. Right off the Bat Baseball Ballads 2011-02-13T03:00:19.390Z
“Let me tell you I have had to use considerable brawn, Willie, in handling these roughnecks that work for me.” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
Of course Steve might be one of the roughneck white roustabouts. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z
The future safety of offshore drilling for both the roughnecks and the environment will be shaped by what happens a mile below. The Gulf oil spill: What lies beneath 2010-05-20T13:25:00Z
Working as a roughneck during the summers, he attended the University of Kansas intending to major in petroleum engineering. Daredevil in Cockpit and Boardroom 2010-05-11T01:40:00Z
Mr. Merritt, the roughneck, said he was not reconsidering his career after the explosion. For Workers and Families, Oil Rigs Mix Risk With Opportunity 2010-04-28T19:29:00Z
What did Canyon Pass and Canyon County have a sheriff for, if roughnecks were to go armed—and use those arms—just as they had been wont to do in the old days? The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
"It was dangerous work and they knew it, but they never flinched," said Biden, who called them "roughneck angels." Obama honors fallen miners, stresses mine safety 2010-04-26T01:55:00Z
In his eulogy, though, Mr. Obama emphasized the human stories of the men who died, “this band of 29 roughneck angels,” as Mr. Biden called them. Obama Eulogizes Victims of Mine Accident 2010-04-25T22:50:00Z
Trouble with you roughneck engineers, you think all there is to a railroad is building it. The Land of Strong Men
There were more than enough roughnecks to do a mighty messy job—fast. Asteroid of Fear
But the 279 rest of the congregation—even the roughnecks on the back seats—were subdued when the song was done. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
And on the top of that, to be called a "roughneck!" A Boy Knight
After the smoke clears away it is found that he has made an error of judgment, that the storekeeper is gifted as a prophet, and that the 'roughneck' is ready for his coffin. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure
I wondered drowsily how Jay would have felt about this situation—he who hated Darkover and avoided contact with every other human being, crowded between a Darkovan free-Amazon and half a dozen assorted roughnecks. The Planet Savers
And these guys were the real roughnecks of the mining camp. Asteroid of Fear
I can live for a while without singing for those roughnecks, that’s a sure thing!” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
The sub-team is a bunch of roughnecks, but he's the worst. The Wishing Moon
I copped it on the high seas—flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.' The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure
"It's not in mine, anyway," I snapped, "but I can't answer for seven other men, most of them mountain roughnecks!" The Planet Savers
But there was a more immediate menace in these space-twisted roughnecks.... Asteroid of Fear
I can keep most of my own roughnecks in line. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
He's a fool and a roughneck, but he can play ball. The Wishing Moon
He threw out a despairing hand; “So I’m a roughneck, Laura–I’m a jay, and I’m going to stay with them.” In the Heart of a Fool
"I'm off that roughneck stuff!" he tells me. Kid Scanlan
Endlich took Neely and the loaded basket close to the transparent side of the greenhouse, nearest the approaching roughnecks. Asteroid of Fear
I kind of gloried in being a roughneck, I reckon,” he added with a wry smile. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
"Why, the fellow I'm telling you about—the roughneck." The Wishing Moon
"Go ahead and advertise the fact that I have married a roughneck!" Alex the Great
He was thankful nevertheless for his English schooling, which had saved him from a defeat at the hands of a "roughneck" which could have been, under the circumstances, nothing less than ignominious. The Vagrant Duke
It looks it, too," said Bert with a wry grin; "we're all marked up a little, but I'll bet that bunch of roughnecks will remember us for a little while to come. Bert Wilson on the Gridiron
These roughnecks would ride right over a parson and—and that kind. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z
What on earth he wanted a picture of us for, I didn't know, unless it was so he could prove to anybody who didn't believe it, that we were a bunch of roughnecks. Shenanigans at Sugar Creek
I had just been with a lot of roughnecks, cowpunchers, horse-thieves, and that sort. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
Those roughnecks are between us and the office—in the office too, I reckon, by this time. The Vagrant Duke
You're a little queen, Billie, and you've been lording it over the roughnecks around here so long that you think you can set your heel on the neck of the universe. The Fifth Ace
It makes lambs out o’ roughnecks and puts drunks on the wagon. The Fighting Shepherdess
He was correct in every detail and he thought complacently that he could not but contrast favourably with the appearance of that "roughneck" from Montana—or was it Wyoming? The Dude Wrangler
Any roughneck gets the quick dump," says I. " Shorty McCabe on the Job
"You know, Miss Shaw, this isn't just the roughneck's scorn for the egghead," Travis said. Oomphel in the Sky
No bunch of roughnecks could come aboard a boat where he was mate and start anything. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North
The property's in the company's name—let the roughnecks sweat a while. North of Fifty-Three
This bunch of roughnecks rolled a big boulder in the road after they'd passed yesterday, or some time, and it took us three hours to get it out. The She Boss A Western Story
"Depends a good deal on Royce," says I. "Course, if he's too raw a roughneck——" "Precisely!" breaks in J. Bayard. Shorty McCabe on the Job
It is Father's constant ambition and determination to spend as much of his time as possible amongst his old "roughneck" working-man pals, instead of in attending his wife's receptions and other society functions. Writing the Photoplay
Then the roughneck kicks because he got a belly full of Yukon. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North
A bunch of young roughnecks lived a few miles away in another settlement called Clary Grove. Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance
Get me to doll you up, will you, you impossible roughneck? The She Boss A Western Story
When a roughneck does something for you, it's proper to hand him some of your loose change. Poor Man's Rock
I never forgot that look on his face, nor the way he took our roughneck insults. The Witness
Any Rocky Mountain roughneck mean enough for that would 'a' just killed you once and been done with it. Copper Streak Trail
"I'm just trying to keep you from dancing with all these roughneck riders." Judith of the Godless Valley
And I'll get me a roughneck with a gun, too, and see that he pays. The She Boss A Western Story
Look here, Stella," he blurted out, "it just grinds me to death to see you slaving away in this camp, feeding a lot of roughnecks. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest
A dear, splendid roughneck, doing a big work with the boys! The Witness
It was mighty slow, an' I'm still a roughneck; but I'm gettin' on. The Mucker
Not that she wanted to dance with the roughnecks any more than Birdie did. Calvary Alley
Beat it in your car to the mountains and get Tehachapi and the other roughnecks. The She Boss A Western Story
Said he'd cut his throat before playin' in a roughneck orchestra and who did she think he was to do such a thing? A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
Any roughneck could sail into a guy and knock the daylights out of him, but how few could be clever and flashy and scientific? The Adventures of Sally
An aged "roughneck" of a half-century of Mexican residence had put it succinctly: "Yer travel scheme's all right; but I'll be —— —— if I like the gat you carry." Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
Why, say, how would he be any relation of a roughneck like me? The Coming of Bill
Lucy, I wouldn't attack Jo's bunch of roughnecks with less than a dozen men; and you can bet your young life our gang is too big as it is. The She Boss A Western Story
Buck's a plain roughneck, and his gang are as bad as he is, and they had got mighty sore at you, mighty sore. The Little Nugget
And one thing, Jeff, he's as innocent as a cup—custard, so you'll have to keep that bunch of Buckeye roughnecks from riding him. Merton of the Movies
"I'm not saying anything against Captain Duff, but he was a roughneck, you know well enough, and I guess he hadn't much use for the Pilot." The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land
The conviction that he was a roughneck deepened in him and tied his tongue. The Coming of Bill
But the miracle had happened; a miracle so wide in its amplitude that the Wheelers,—all the Wheelers and the roughnecks and the low-brows were caught up in it. One of Ours
What would you do if you woke up in the dark and found a strong-armed roughneck prising you out of bed as if you were a clam? The Little Nugget
He wore a green-and-white roughneck sweater broadly striped, and the blue overalls that inevitably follow American civilization into the wild places. The Heritage of the Sioux
The Russians quit work a few seasons ago, and now they are selling their art treasures cheap to the roughneck nations that stuck to the pick-ax and the plow. The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it
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