Hard Hat

As a flatbed truck loaded with hard-hat construction workers raced southward with flags flying, she said she wept. ❋ Gary Hart (2011)

During an exclusive hard-hat tour in September, Tod Williams, of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York, pointed out the siting of key features: a three-story garden that will interrupt the art galleries; a long, low water feature near the visitor entrance; a cantilevered light court connecting the galleries with an L-shaped building containing a caf é, gift shop, auditorium and other amenities. ❋ Julia M. Klein (2010)

Mr. Santorum's rise is a telling rebuke—a "conservative" who hails from a blue state and yet who succeeded because he found a natural way to bridge the gap, thanks to his affiliation with unions and hard-hat workers. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2012)

From hard-hat wearing industrial workers, to school children, and from office workers to farmers exposed to pesticides, these groups seem to have little in common. ❋ M.D. Leo Galland (2011)

Part of her pre-holiday birthday party included time with friends and family in Sag Harbor to take a hard-hat tour of the library before it was shut for the renovation. ❋ Melanie Grayce West (2011)

As the hours passed, the scene at Camp Hope became festive as food donations poured in, hard-hat miners went tent to tent hugging family members and hundreds of journalists scampered to stay up with a story for which the world has an apparently insatiable appetite. ❋ Jonathan Franklin (2010)

He recently went on a hard-hat tour of the unfinished product, and sealed the deal. ❋ Laura Kusisto (2011)

During a recent hard-hat tour, Senior Vice President Mark Litvin pointed out some of the key changes and curious additions that showed up along the way: "We're removing the church windows that were added in the 1980s," he said. ❋ Pia Catton (2011)

The concourses were covered in dust, and the crowd consisted mostly of hard-hat construction workers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet he championed the hard-hat American heartland by hailing its ethos of hard work and what today would be known as “family values” far more than by proposing concrete measures to assure its economic well-being. ❋ Steve Fraser (2010)

And then, Kaiser noted, there are always the hard-hat jobs around the center, with the front windows encased in sheeting right now, and the Terrace Theater scheduled for a makeover. ❋ Unknown (2010)