Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the emerging cult of Washington. After 1799, the imagery of the pater patriae as hero and then as demigod was being manufactured far and wide for the American market. Even Chinese painters produced touchingly naive apotheoses of Washington borne up ! to heaven on billowing clouds, rising through a shaft of light and surrounded with angels and grieving personifications of the young Republic, like a baroque saint...
...Turner cast a write-in vote for Shaft in the 1972 presidential election...
Parsons said that although a budget hasn't beenset aside for renovations, the costs will be high."Developing access can be extremely expensive.Putting in an elevator shaft can cost between$100,000 and $200,000," he said...
Mary Stuart, the show's only remaining original cast member, got the word while being held at gunpoint in an elevator shaft. In the midst of shooting a segment of Search for Tomorrow, she was called into the producer's office. The news was sad but not unexpected: after 35 years on the air, longer than any other soap opera, her series was being canceled. Its fatal malady: low ratings...
...track for one of the trains that help carry gold ore to the surface. Suddenly, an acetylene tank sparked and flared. Flames swept through the tunnel, igniting plastic-covered wiring, which in turn set fire to polyurethane foam that keeps the walls dry and solid. Within minutes the mine shaft filled with thick black smoke containing toxic fumes from the burning plastic. Choking miners immediately fell and died of asphyxiation. When the initial 9 1/2-hour rescue operation ended, 177 were dead, one was missing, and 235 were injured, making Kinross the worst gold-mine disaster in South African history...