The oil industry has also attracted roustabouts, men just passing through who are hired for unskilled labor. |
And by the time he's 25, he's supervising 1,500 roustabouts constructing a railroad through the mountains of British Columbia. |
The simple graphic, though it may perpetuate the hopes and expectations of unemployed roughnecks and roustabouts, masks a more complex story. |
I hear, the boss took on two new roustabouts this morning to help with the canvas crew. |
Few neighborhood rituals in Manhattan are more beguiling than to be present as roustabouts pump helium into the balloons that give such a childlike lift to the Macy's parade. |
This was a dangerous area, but the skilled roughnecks and the roustabouts went about their business with seamless teamwork. |