1. He could have begun the spadework for a statewide campaign. 2. But that backing also reflects two decades of patient spadework by Labastida. 3. Reed said, pledging himself to a term of grass-roots spadework . 4. Rose, though, needs to do more spadework . 5. Sometimes, it seems, grass roots need a little spadework from the press. 6. The purpose of the Santa Monica summit is to do the spadework for that. 7. It would require numbers of experts and a great deal of spadework to do it right. 8. As Brock explains : " Political movements arise from the spadework of intellectuals, not politicians. 9. After Congress's 1995 ruling, a Palestinian historian, Walid Khalidi, did a little spadework . 10. Primary-source spadework of the kind this show represents is the very life-blood of historical study.