Word: shaft
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...mock wedding, including members of the Boston Korean Club and the Boston Senior Korean Club, two local organizations that hosted the Los Angeles group. “As an East Asian studies concentrator, you get a lot of attention for Japan and China, but Korea generally gets the shaft,” said graduate student Beverley N. Foulks, who is in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Others had more pragmatic reasons for showing up. “Raffle,” confessed Henry J. Foo ’08, holding up his ticket for an iPod raffle. After...
With the bunker's heavy metal lid dragged to one side, dank musty air rose up from the entrance, the forbidding gloom of the narrow steel-lined shaft below unbroken by the bright sunlight. It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer even under the pounding of Israeli air and ground operations. But any sense of exhilaration at the achievement was dampened by the nagging anxiety of claustrophobia...
...always wanted to tell someone: Alexandra Palma, the results came back and you’re the mother of my child. Favorite childhood toy: Hot Wheels. Sexiest physical trait: The Juggernut. Favorite part about Harvard: Teeming hordes of hot chicks. Describe yourself in three words: Elvis meets Shaft. In 15 minutes you are: Crasturbating. In 15 years you are: Crasturbating, but they won’t be tears...
...coal barons. The cash to buy their cars and toys will come from the sweat--and perhaps blood--of men like Xie Daibing. Xie, originally from the remote and dirt-poor province of Gansu, on the border with Tibet, works in a mine less than a mile from the shaft in Zuoyun County where the 57 miners drowned. "No, I'm not scared," he says, although he looks it, a frown creasing his forehead and his fingers restlessly juggling his cigarette pack and lighter. Xie says he's confident that the central government is doing its best to protect miners...
...nearby Aviara golf course with a monogrammed bag and their new set of custom-fit clubs, all ready for 18 holes of green-grass testing under the watchful eye of Peterson. After lunch, the club technicians get back to work, tackling any lie, loft or shaft adjustments that the round reveals...