Word: shafting
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...hurried a special housekeeping crew to clear away the winter's cobwebs from Kennedy's rambling white clapboard cottage. Across the way at Bobby's house, where Mike Pearson would sleep, roofers scampered around repairing gutters and tacking down loose shingles. Well drillers sank a dry shaft into the front lawn to take the roof runoff in case it rained. Over in the Hyannis marina four miles away, a presidential yacht, the Patrick J., bobbed at anchor, all tuned and ready for an afternoon's cruise. Baxter's Fish Market was standing anxiously by, awaiting...
...uncomplicated. It sucks air through an intake and compresses it in a chamber into which fuel is sprayed and ignited by a spark plug (see diagram). The expanding gases drive one turbine wheel that spins the air compressor and then rush on to whirl another turbine that drives a shaft. Turbines in their simplest form have major disadvantages, but where these are not of prime importance, they are already hard at work. They run standby generators in telephone exchanges, drive an Army 13-car overland troop-supply train and power Navy landing craft, Marine hydrofoil boats and Air Force helicopters...
...earlier Postmaster named Benjamin Franklin. Not a very good postman was Ben, said Day, with more humor than accuracy. Day, in effect, accused Franklin of nepotism (six relatives on the payroll), unfair business practices (plotting to bar the mails to a rival publisher), and, as a final shaft, "after landing this plum he left for England and stayed 18 years." Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club was not amused. "Franklin may have had some human failings," said a spokesman, ''but at least he was able to run the Post Office with out a deficit...
...pool table suddenly appeared irresistable. Less than a week before the thesis was due I gave it up and quickly got back to my neglected course work. AS a result game fish though I was, 11.5 honor grades notwithstanding. I received no Cum Laudo but only the shaft. Which was, of course, exactly what I had earned...
...said the lawyer for monocled Actor Martyn Green, 63, whose $350,000 negligence suit against a Manhattan parking garage was tossed out of court. Three years ago, Green's left leg was amputated after it was crushed between the garage's self-service elevator platform and the shaft wall; an ambulance intern had to borrow a penknife from a cop to perform the operation. But an all-male jury agreed that Green had no claim. He was operating the elevator himself because he didn't trust the garage attendants to park his M.G. sports...