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"ref": "2010, Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind",
"text": "Red carted their overnight bags to the plane, and the ground man broke off his conversation with the pilot to stuff them into the nose compartment.",
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"ref": "2011, Earl Heron, One Desert Jet Turner",
"text": "The ground man and I were stepping through the checklist.",
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"ref": "2014, Martin W. Bowman, We Were Eagles",
"text": "A ground man is polishing the newly mended nose, rubbing every bit of dirt from it, so that the bombardier may have a good sight of his target.",
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"ref": "1986, The Arboricultural Journal, page 290",
"text": "The above list is by no means exhaustive but outlines the ways in which a ground man may affect the performance of a climber.",
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"ref": "2010, Dennis Perry, Mad Dog Steel Time, page 76",
"text": "With Cowboy acting as his ground man he started climbing a corner of the cabin where logs overlapped in a locking pattern.",
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"ref": "2011, Michael Sutton, On the Crest of a Wave",
"text": "Then Robert in the hoist signalled to Larry the 'ground man' and the crane driver lowered them down to the topsail which Ronnie and Robert worked on.",
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"ref": "1904, The Era Annual, page 41",
"text": "The ground man had pulled up the large tacks when using the mowing machine, and put them into the ground again (anywhere) afterwards.",
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"ref": "1922, The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes",
"text": "It is surprising how few people outside the regular ground man know how to tend a green.",
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"ref": "1936, Clarence Rugg Cleveland, Oil Sprays: A Fruit Growers Handbook and Record, page 63",
"text": "The ground man should be trained not to work too close to the tree.",
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"ref": "2015, Francis Marshall, Football: The Rugby Union Game, page 105",
"text": "As stated above, a man can only play football in good form for a few years, and then he has nothing to fall back upon; whilst a cricketer can retain his form for a long number of years, and when getting on in years he can still be a ground bowler, a teacher of the game, a ground man or an umpire, so that through cricket a man can get genuine occupation for a number of years.",
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"text": "The ground man and I were stepping through the checklist.",
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"ref": "2010, Dennis Perry, Mad Dog Steel Time, page 76",
"text": "With Cowboy acting as his ground man he started climbing a corner of the cabin where logs overlapped in a locking pattern.",
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},
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},
{
"ref": "1922, The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes",
"text": "It is surprising how few people outside the regular ground man know how to tend a green.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1936, Clarence Rugg Cleveland, Oil Sprays: A Fruit Growers Handbook and Record, page 63",
"text": "The ground man should be trained not to work too close to the tree.",
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},
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