Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-hero is a Canadian writer who has had a homosexual affair with a Member of Parliament, who himself slept with the writer's wife. Both politician and wife are now dead, he of syphilis and she of the results of crawling into the bottom of an elevator shaft and waiting for someone to press the down button. The antihero, left alone with his nausea, distracts himself by recreating the career of a Mohawk Indian saint named Catherine Tekakwitha. "Catherine Tekakwitha," he maunders, "who are you? Are you (1656-1680)? Is that enough? Are you the Iroquois Virgin...
...companies are experimenting with a "drivometer"-a device attached to the brake, accelerator and steering apparatus that would warn a driver when he is performing sloppily. Ford is well along with a "wrist steer"-two small wheels at the driver's side that would replace the dangerous steering shaft. Engineers at G.M. are tinkering with "unicontrol," a sort of auto pilot that would pick up directional signals from the road...
Probable Relation. To dispose safely of contaminated water containing the waste products of a deadly nerve gas and other products manufactured at the arsenal, the Army had sunk a 12,045-ft. shaft and pumped down the first 4,000,000 gallons of waste water in March 1962. The quakes began the next month; they have been rattling the area ever since at a rate that has varied with the amount of waste water disposed of in the well. Between April and September of 1965, for example, when the Army pumped 5,800,000 gallons per month into the earth...
There is a difference between a nightmare and a "nightmare"-the cliche that can be applied to anything from a rescue out of an abandoned mine shaft to unusually bad traffic conditions...
...able to sketch lions in their coiled-spring power. And it is within the painting's faithfulness to nature that the miracle becomes more believable. Remains of their former meals lie scattered in the foreground. Amidst their curling manes and rippling bodies, Daniel is impaled by a shaft of light that slashes into the den. The sheer force of the composition points directly at the baroque style then in its flowering...