Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fallen, and the floodlights were on, when Mathias cleared the pole vault (11 ft. 5¾ in.). After that, with an official marking the foul line for him with a flashlight, he threw the javelin. The few spectators who stood in the drizzling gloom could barely see the shaft as he hurled it 165 ft. 1 in. It was getting on towards midnight, and Mathias had only the 1,500-meter run left to do. If he could make it in anything like decent time, the championship was his. But could he? The boy from Tulare, Calif...
...Gasperi flung a final taunt at Di Vittorio, who sat sullenly near the empty chair of Togliatti: "Before the Confederation of Labor decided to resume work, the conscience of the majority of the workers had already called off the strike." This was a telling shaft; even before the strike officially expired (Thursday midnight), workers were returning to factories here & there, shops were pulling up their shutters, and the brightly dressed creatures of Via Veneto were emerging once more from their palatial hideouts...
...just 13 years ago that the fatcat Republican Los Angeles Times moved into a handsome new six-story building. To protect the inlaid city-room floor, reporters were forbidden to smoke. Last week, directly behind this modern plant, another building was nearing completion -a ten-story white shaft with sea-green windows and an affluent look. Times reporters, who long ago broke down the no-smoking rule, were under fresh orders from the management: anybody who entered the new building would be fired on the spot...
...signed most of them-the appropriation bill for foreign aid with real pleasure. But he seized every possible occasion to aim a fresh shaft at Congress. He reluctantly approved pay raises of $330 to $450 a year for 1,318,000 federal employees "even though the act meets neither the needs of the employees nor those of the Government...
...place of the combustion chambers of a turbojet engine (see chart). A compressor forces air into the forward end of the engine. Heated and expanded by the nuclear reactor, the air shoots toward the rear end. On the way it spins a turbine, which runs the compressor through a shaft. The force of the jet escaping from the tailpipe pushes the airplane forward...