He went to work in the oil-producing areas of Texas.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

That's right. Louisiana Slim he's sometimes called. Yes, Sir. I sure have met Big Slim. And he used to work in the east Texas oil fields?"

对，人们有时叫他路易斯安那的细杆，是的先生我肯定,遇见过，他过去是不是经常在得克萨斯州东部的油田工作？“

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"We use some kind of light oil that we heat up and we actually work it into the oily feathers.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

Coast Guard chief warrant officer Adam Wine says the work involves using special towels to wipe up the sticky oil.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Gates noted,Tuesday, that the United States was prepared to work to help resolve the oil and land disputes, which have Kurds and Arabs at loggerheads.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Cleanup work continues across parts of Louisiana and other states hit by the oil.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

The work of patrolling Florida's waters for oil begins in the skies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

He says the Keys have been lucky,so far. "I hate to use the work lucky in terms of an oil spill, because someone else is having a lot of issues and we know where the environment is having issues."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05