Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high structure would obliterate vistas and harm the city's still intimate scale. Dress Manufacturer Alvin Duskin took an ad to warn that San Francisco would soon be "like New York and Chicago, where life has all the joys of the bottom of an elevator shaft-a crowded elevator shaft where everybody has guns...
...started in the back on the first floor, shot up through an air shaft and mushroomed out on the third floor," he said...
...fracture. In fact, it often does. "The typical ski injury," says Garrick, "involves a woman around 18 to 20 who is just beginning. As she makes a turn maneuver on a gentle slope, she goes down in a slow, twisting fall. She feels something snap; she has fractured the shaft of her tibia and fibula, the two bones of the lower...
...safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels becomes stuck in a lunar rut. If the wheel cannot be worked free, the ground controllers can fire a small explosive charge, disconnecting it from the drive shaft and allowing it to spin freely. In fact, the vehicle can move either forward or backward with two wheels out of action on each side...
...obelisk that now stands in front of the headquarters of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Italian troops stole the obelisk from the ancient Ethiopian capital at Aksum, and Mussolini had it set up in Rome. Ethiopians want it back, but the Italians have maintained that the shaft is too weak to be moved. Moreover, neo-Fascist extremists would probably raise a ruckus if Il Duce's trophy were taken away...