goldbrick

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There was one more anxious moment when it looked as if Colonel Ruppert might have bought a $75,000 goldbrick.

From Time Magazine Archive

For $100 to $500 per employee, handwriting analysts will assess at least 20 different cursive characteristics and advise the prospective employer about the chances of a person's being a future embezzler or goldbrick.

From Time Magazine Archive

To U.S. soldiers, "Sad Sack" is the funniest little lug who ever got a typhus shot or tried to goldbrick out of a duty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among its 113 characters, every military type is represented�the good soldier, the coward, the goldbrick, the rank-happy shavetail, the lucky and the wound-prone.

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True enough, assignments do not all have the same level of work requirement, and one is sometimes handed a wide open opportunity to goldbrick.

From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense