Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well at Phillips Petroleum Co.'s Platform Bravo, a stilt-legged rig some 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Norway. Usually crews conduct these periodic "workovers" by closing the valves on the "Christmas tree," or top part of the well, pumping heavy mud down the well shaft to force the oil back to its underground reservoir, and then sealing the well with a cap called a blowout preventer. This time, as the crew worked to fasten the blowout preventer, pressure in the well unexpectedly built up and blew out the temporary plug. A few seconds later the well itself...
However, as the obituaries were being prepared and it seemed that Dartmouth would win its first Biglin Bowl in 13 years, a shaft of light broke through the clouds and Harvard's prayers were answered...
...novelist is less like a prophet than he is like the canary that miners used to take down into the shaft to test the air. When the canary gets unhappy, utters plaintive cries, and collapses, it may be time for the miners to surface and think things over...
...unified city. It was schizophrenic: "A chic Boston, of specialty shops and bars and steak houses with hokey names" and "the old Boston, increasingly angry at the threats to its life-style and existence, convinced that somebody else was getting everything, while it was getting nothing more than the shaft." Boston's cursing, stone-throwing resistance to busing was not the reaction of "a liberal city being hypocritical." Instead, it was "a parochial city with a long history of ethnic and racial distrust and bigotry" integrating its schools with fear, anger and some violence-but with remarkably few deaths...
...Shaft...