Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Juvenal's nails dug into the hard flesh of Higinio's penis, and with a how! Higinio lashed back at turn. The shaft of his now lifeless member lay bloody....His banal blond angel face with its tight puckered mount, withheld the radiant smile it normally squandered so freely in all directions, except when he was trying to escape the perverse chubby little squint-eyed Zoe, who chased him around urging the other small cousins to take up her terrible accusation. "Higinio has no pathos....Higinio has no paths...
...afternoon on Tuesday the fighting had subsided, and on Wednesday morning we drove across town. A carpet hung limply from a gaping hole in a highrise. The thick steel cable of an elevator shaft dangled crazily out of a police station. No armed men were in evidence, sandbagged army checkpoints had been abandoned, and traffic flowed freely for the first time in weeks. But clearly the conflict was far from over. Militiamen had thrown up barricades around the district of Maasra, while fighting still raged along the green line that separates Christian East Beirut from the predominantly Muslim western half...
...What do you do with a gazebo?" Bright bars of sunlight lay on the rag rugs and the pine floors, and a shaft of the stuff glinted off the Wolfs' decanter collection and their cut-glass saltcellar collection (here a discerning eye might see that a couple of the spoons came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot...
...windy presenter said that the President, like the hickory cane, was unbending, un yielding and several other ways of saying "stiff." Coolidge, the soul of taciturnity, took the cane, sighted down the shaft, said "Ash," and sat down.) Lyle gives the impression that renovating the house made his nose feel like a paymaster's window. So far, $25,000 has been eaten by the structure. And in thinning his purse, the innkeeper says he has learned something about the Yankee tradesman's sense of priorities. If, for ex ample, the Wolfs' prehistoric heating sys tem goes blooey...
...alimony and child support, give her their $1.5 million estate and custody of their five-year-old twins, Mack and Zack. Terming the demands exorbitant, Harper said they reminded him of the hit song by Country Singer Jerry Reed, which protests: "She got the gold mine, I got the shaft...