Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chill morning last month, seven men-including three of her sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder. Out of the hole in the hill roared thick black smoke, fire, machinery fragments and a flutter of paper currency, the money ripped from the pockets of the seven dead miners below...
...gain of more than $2.5 billion. Obviously, all such projections are murky, with various officials making different assumptions about just what would happen. "The numbers thrown around by the President look suspicious," contends Economics Professor Bernard Weinstein of the University of Texas. "State and local governments will get the shaft as well as the shift...
DIED, llya Bolotowsky, 74, Russian-born painter and sculptor, who was one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists group; of injuries suffered in an accidental fall in an elevator shaft; in Manhattan. Bolotowsky was an abstractionist who worked with flat primary colors in geometric compositions. In 1936 he created one of the first abstract murals ever commissioned...
Raynard DeLeon's week began with splendid luck and cunning. He and five fellow inmates of the San Diego County jail squeezed through a ventilator shaft and out an unlocked door. But from there, DeLeon went one way, and his luck and cunning skittered off in another...
...sent to the bathroom to perform my ablutions as a Muslim before the execution. There I met two other condemned political prisoners. One said they had both tried and failed to squeeze through a narrow opening into what looked like a ventilating shaft. To make a ladder for me, one stood on the other's shoulders. I climbed them both and just scraped through the hole. I am thin as it is, and the loss of 40 Ibs. under torture helped...