Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Getting the Shaft...
...pumps (ethyl, regular and lead-free), two tiled bathrooms, two mechanics' bays and a battery of U-Haul trailers for rent. Most of the cast had never heard of Evanston, much less the A & A, until they found themselves waylaid outside town by a steaming radiator, broken drive shaft, clogged fuel pump or flat tire, and brought here. Usually they are towed in by Jon Lunsford, 40, soft-spoken Mormon and "the Boss," or by his ace mechanic, Cliff Cole, 36, a chain-smoking drinker-turned-teetotaler, who likes to explain that he's "been working on cars...
Wicklund, who claims he never gets sick and never gets a cold, said he still runs ten miles a day, despite a recent operation in which doctors replaced a section of an arthritic femur bone with a ten-inch stainless steel shaft...
...shouted the protesters. They papered the walls with slogans of crude double-entendre: WHAT DID YOU GET US, ARNIE-THE SHAFT? Though the demonstrators pledged nonviolence, Miller did not enter the building. Charging them with "intimidation and threats," he postponed the meeting and later said testily: "There cannot be any further collective bargaining until this irresponsible action ceases." In his absence, members of the bargaining council took an unofficial vote. The panel of district leaders, reflecting deep dissatisfaction among the rank and file, voted down the contract...
Along with all the diversions, Camp David also provides?at the bottom of an elevator shaft sunk 100 ft. into the mountain?a fortress where the President could repair in time of war. Even in peaceful times, security is tight. Rifle-bearing Marines keep watch behind a double row of barbed-wire-topped fences...