Word: hoist
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...Thompson had managed to become something of an astronomer by the time he reached his teens. He was only 13 when the Stamp Act was repealed, but he volunteered to produce a fireworks exhibition for the Salem townsfolk. The display was one of his few failures: Ben was literally hoist with one of his own petards. After a long and painful recuperation, he attended classes in "experimental philosophy" at Harvard, studied a little medicine, and at 20 was teaching school in Concord. N. H. (formerly Rumford, Mass.). There he wooed a wealthy widow some 13 years his senior...
...must have looked rather like the corpse of a drowned man, bloated and discolored. In fact, the man was alive, though drowning inwardly of dropsy and so weak that he could scarcely move a finger. There was nothing for it but to strap him in an armchair and hoist him over the side like any common lading. As the winch turned and the invalid rose lurching, the sailors and dockmen burst into jeering laughter at the pitiful figure...
...grade the site and lay a concrete slab foundation, which is left to dry for a week. Then a truck dumps off floor beams, wall sections and other parts of a house. In 27 minutes two men bolt the frames together, throw up the walls and hoist the roof in place. Insulating material, then three coats of stucco are put on the walls, while other crews put in wiring and plumbing; before leaving, the workmen lay bathroom and kitchen tiling and an asphalt driveway. Though there is nothing inside but bare studding, the house is ready for the buyer...
...good performances by less famous musicians: Guido Cantelli and Milan's La Scala Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5; the late Fritz Busch with the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 88; Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony in Hoist's The Planets...
Workmen are currently fixing the sky light and the roof, and have boarded the lower windows on one side to prevent them from being broken when material is hauled to the top of the facade by hoist...