Word: shafted
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...hook a ball deliberately (e.g., to get past a tree): turn both hands toward the right when gripping the club. To slice, turn the hands the other way over the shaft...
...Little Co. sees a bright future for tracers in industry. They can be used to measure the infinitesimal amount of lubricant applied to textile fibers, or to estimate the ghost-thin film of metal rubbed off a shaft when it revolves in its bearings. No quantity of material is too small to carry telltale sparks of radioactivity...
Beyond the World War I Liberty Memorial, a 217-ft. shaft topped by flame-colored light, they drove through a district of small homes and gardens to Country Club Plaza, the neo-Spanish shopping center of J. C. Nichols' famed suburban development (TIME, Dec. 1). Just beyond, they turned west along Brush Creek, lined and bottomed with the concrete Tom Pendergast sold. Just across the Kansas line, the car turned up a short driveway to a large stone-and-brick house,† a full eight-iron shot from the tenth green of the Mission Hills golf course...
...Shake. Other recent Wright projects: a Dallas hotel which, "unlike most commercial hotels . . .is planned chiefly for comfort and entertainment of guests," and a sports club for the Hollywood hills, featuring vast saucers of concrete, cantilevered out from a central shaft. The lowest saucers would hold a tennis court and a swimming pool. Those who dared to go higher could get a cocktail, or, at the very top, a sun bath. "The construction," said Wright blandly, "would have the same chance in a temblor as a tree with a taproot. The dramatic character. . . is achieved at no sacrifice of either...
...seldom get hurt," said Perey, "but once in a while the blade breaks on a weapon and the shaft goes right...