Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last been to a dentist, he replied: "I ain't never been." Another is Ray Martin, 18, who hails from "a holler" near Isom, Ky., where he lived with his widowed mother, six brothers and sisters. At six, Martin was gathering coal in an abandoned mine shaft to provide the family's fuel. At 16, he went to work in the mines as his family's chief wage earner. When Martin left home to travel to Catoctin Mountain, his mother told him: "Don't come back, son. There's nothing for you here." Still another...
...commercial airlines are concerned, Hahn is public enemy No. 1. The flat rate for transporting a golf bag in the U.S. is $4, and his weighs 80 Ibs. One club has a rubber hose for a shaft; another is hinged in four places, still another has a shaft 12 ft. long. A canny showman, Hahn modifies his routine periodically to keep it fresh. He no longer, for instance, performs his William Tell Shot-driving the ball off a tee clutched in the teeth of a pretty girl...
Bennett and his companions were exploring the cave, located ten miles east of Ithaca, N.Y., when Mitchell became wedged in a vertical shaft under a stream of extremely cold water...
Mitchell had lowered himself to the bottom of the shaft by means of a rope and pulley tied around his midsection. As he attempted to raise himself back to the opening of the chasm, he became stuck...
...broken valve cost him the German Grand Prix. A shaft snapped in Austria, a tire blew in the Indy 500, an oil line burst in the Mexican Grand Prix after Clark had led for 64 of the 65 laps. Britain's John Surtees won the 1964 Grand Prix championship; Clark finished third. To top it off, he got into a friendly snowball fight in the Italian Alps last month, twisted his back, and wound up with a slipped disc. The experts wondered: Was Clark washed...