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One who on the merest suggestion of a contact, however benign, will go down like the proverbial sack of spuds, if need be executing a magnificent swan dive in the process — an act of personal exertion far more ambitious than the employee would ever attempt in performance of his ordinary duties, to cover the ground required to land squarely in the penalty box.