Word: shaft
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...BLOWER An industrial electric fan pumps fresh air down the tunnel shaft to ventilate the burial chamber...
...ARTS Books: Leaving Mother Lake Movies: Blind Shaft digs deep...
...about her in the traditional way, as a sinner." But eight years ago, the 56-year-old technical writer tapped into a network of neo-Magdalenites through her connection with the liberal Catholic groups Call to Action and Futurechurch. The discovery that, as Turner puts it, Magdalene "got the shaft" started her thinking about how to change the situation. She was happy to find that the two organizations, which see Magdalene's recovered image as an argument for their goal of a priesthood open to all those who feel called, coordinate celebrations around the world on her feast...
...first, I was simply embarrassed for my hopelessly uncool race, as the doughy administrative duo had actually succeeded in making the usually square Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter look like John Shaft. But then I had another thought: the fact that these two men, hopelessly disheveled as they were, had ascended to the leadership of Harvard College and Harvard University was a wonderful testament to the genuine meritocracy of this place. These two men, the grandchildren of immigrants, had risen to the top of the greasy pole without the benefit of grace or style, but merely...
After the play, a frustrated Woodson threw his broken stick on to the field, and did not seem to appreciate Stenmark’s kind gesture when he handed Woodson his broken shaft, who ripped it out of the Crimson long-pole’s hand...