Word: shafting
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...fire reminds him of the painting In which a shaft of sun rests upon a blank of polished copper; In the mirror's ground the Greek bride floats, Dark in all that brightness, And in that mirror Warm...
...were a few scare headlines in the U.S., but intelligence sources voiced strong doubt that Khrushchev's flyswatter really existed. Last week the U.S. answered his boast with a well-timed rejoinder. On Kwajalein atoll in the mid-Pacific, a winged Nike-Zeus missile lurched skyward atop a shaft of flame, soared more than 100,000 feet, and-for the first time-intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile that had been launched some 20 minutes earlier at 16,000 m.p.h. from California, 4,700 miles away...
...smut. His show is clean, decent, plain, straightforward, decorous, honest, and full of gimmicks like the daily snake march around the breakfast table. And even if McNeill says good-morning and reports, "It's a foggy, soggy morning in Chicago," fans all over the U.S. nonetheless detect a shaft of sunshine in his voice...
...this year. Most ambitious of the tunnels went from West to East. Led by Peter Scholz, a 2O-year-old West Berlin mechanic who was separated from his East German fiancee by the Wall, six young Berliners started in the cellar of a West Berlin tavern, dug a shaft 9 ft. below ground that surfaced 60 ft. away in the basement of an East Berlin photograohy shop. There they made rendezvous with eleven friends and relatives, including Scholz's fiancee and her four-month-old daughter, Suzanne, who had to be fed tranquilizers so that she would...
Gingerly hauling Suzanne in a tin dishpan, the fugitives-among them five other women and two small boys-took three hours to squeeze through the 2O-inch shaft to freedom...