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Word: shafted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House superintendent and a mechanic, lacking a key to the elevator room above the shaft, were unable to free him until the arrival of an Otis elevator repairman with the proper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elevator Imprisons Student | 11/4/1960 | See Source »

...pillar serves no functional purpose; it does not support the statue but follows the contours of the figure as if it intruded into or grew out of the person represented. Its rear plane is flat and is frequently covered with columns of symbols. Yet some scholars suggest that the shaft is perhaps the most essential part of a Late Period statue, because it is the seat of the Ka, or vital force, thought to endow the subject with divine power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bridge from Antiquity | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...Johnson-loaded room hooted and cheered with each sharp shaft, while Kennedy sat expressionless on the dais. When Johnson concluded, Jack popped up with a light back-pat from Brother Bobby. He somewhat neutralized the attack with a few sophisticated snap sentences. "We survived," he said, laughing apprehensively. Johnson had scored some points, but Kennedy had the votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Organization Nominee | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Fireflooding. New methods may produce even better results. One new meth od, called fireflooding, uses an electric coil in a well shaft to ignite the oil. Air is then pumped in to fan the blaze. The moving wall of fire thins the oil so that it flows ahead of the blaze to another well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Texas Makes Up Its Mind | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...whistle for the last call to board. There was a stampede to the steep, 14-ft.-wide stone stairway leading down to the platform, whose steps were covered with snow that had drifted in through the station's broken roof. Someone slipped, and in seconds the stair shaft was corked with screaming, struggling people. When the rush was over, 31 were dead, eleven of them children, in the worst railway disaster in Korean history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Death in the Crowd | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

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