Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When officials discovered a chart next to the new phones with check marks indicating the number of successful "penny" calls, the company removed the machines entirely. They were at a loss to explain the failure of their specially devised "spin-proof" shaft...
...didn't bother to take out a city permit (which would have called for inspection of the job) or to bring timber to shore up his shaft. He just ripped up a patch of concrete flooring near the garage's main support pillar and began to dig. At 18 feet, as he was trying to dislodge a big rock, a cave-in buried him up to the waist in loose sand and gravel. When he tried to wriggle out he discovered that he was trapped; his right leg was doubled beneath him and pinned immovably by the boulder...
McNeil repeatedly addressed Cheng as "Mr. Ambassador." At length the Chinese politely asked: "After this, how can you still call me Mr. Ambassador?" Painfully, McNeil answered: "Once an ambassador, always an ambassador." The Chinese musingly released a barbed shaft: "In my country we have a similar saying, 'Once a friend, always a friend...
...formal presentation at the Casa Rosada last week, Sylvia was accompanied by Ambassador Griffis and his second in command, Lester Mallory. While the dogs made friends, Evita expressed her thanks and leveled a gay shaft at Grass Widower Griffis.* "Now that you have found a wife for Tambour," she smiled archly, "I shall have to find you a wife among our descamisadas...