Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Water Mine. A few years ago, when gold shares were falling and uranium was coming into the limelight, one mine changed its name from Samar Yellowknife Gold Mines Ltd. to Oak Ridge Uranium Mines Ltd. Neither gold nor uranium has yet been mined by this company; its main shaft is full of water...
Taillefer was leaving the third-floor chapel after noon prayers when he saw smoke billowing up from the new elevator shaft. He cried "Fire!" An alarm was sounded. Taillefer and the other old men had time to hobble downstairs. The 182 orphans on the east side held each other's hands in a human chain and filed...
...dawn one day last week, the day shift went down to take over from the night shift at Easington colliery, Durham, England. In the long, narrow tunnel leading from the main shaft to the coal face, 1,000 feet below the surface, 40 incoming miners filed past 40 outgoing miners. By the dim light of their head lamps, they exchanged the customary cheery "Good morning." Suddenly an explosion shook the earth. The 80 men were buried beneath tons of debris...
Within 20 minutes, the first rescue workers went down into the black, poisonous shaft. Relatives gathered at the pit head, stoically waited for news as their clergymen prayed. Hours later a mineworkers' union man finally declared: "We must now take it that there is no hope." Total dead (including two rescue workers...
...significant. Every third line sounds as if it were the key to the whole play. To give all these lines their due importance, the actors were obliged to maintain a lofty and serious tone throughout. The play rolled on, inexorably significant, unbroken by so much as one shaft of humor...