Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone is killed. It is likely that Fate, the boss, or whoever has turned on Gus. This innocent man may fall victim to the evil which he has sensed but cannot find the words to explain. It may be that he, and not the old elevator shaft with its moveable shelf which sends the message of death, is the actual dumb waiter, stupidly waiting...
...Linguistics department passed swiftly through the College's collective consciousness. The differing receptions afforded these two issues demonstrates on a small scale a rule that holds true for campus events generally. If a Harvard professor debates gay rights, though he do it at the bottom of a Tasmanian mine shaft, it will attract more attention than any reform affecting undergraduate education...
...Bomb, the Fly, Shaft, and blaxploitation sending it up right through the nineteen hundred and seventies with our man Tricky Dick in the Whitest House in town, bellbottoms and Chocolate City across the street and to the right. Wer gonna have a funk-Y good time, free yer mind, and yer rearend will do th'followin'. Follow follow follow yer ass will follow and what a fine FAT ASS it is and BREAK to nineteen hundred and ninety-three disco is dead but now so is punk rock and glam rock and pop rock and self-righteous rock and freedom...
...most of the social impact, would get nothing. There is no large population of unemployed miners in the area, which is getting along fairly well from tourism. Peter Aengst, an activist for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, repeats a familiar complaint: "Crown Butte gets the mine, and Yellowstone gets the shaft...
ENVIRONMENT: Will Yellowstone Get the Shaft...