Word: shafting
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...road and hail hissed out of the clouds. The three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...
...waves start from the roof of a Telephone Co. building in Manhattan. A tricky metallic "lens" concentrates them into a narrow beam, sharper than the shaft of a searchlight, which points at the first relay station atop Jackie Jones Mountain, 35 miles away. A receiving lens gathers in the waves; an amplifier hops them up; a second transmitter beams them to the next hilltop relay. They make eight jumps to reach Boston...
...hitch remains, baton twirler is lacking. Manager Jay Skinner '48 and other high up in the band hierarchy are currently engaged in an intensive search calculated to produce someone who can toss a shiny metal shaft around. "We have never marched on the field without a baton twirler to toss his stick over the goal posts," Skinner declared...
...course Manager Jay Skinner '48 will be glad to see you if you can play a tuba or beat a drum, but what he really wants is someone who can toss that shiny metal shaft around--two, if possible. "We have never marched on the field without a baton twirler to toss his baton over the goal posts," Sinner declared...
...programs the country listens to, are shaped by the whims of a tyrant-sponsor. This churl is delineated expertly, if a touch too silkily, by Sidney Greenstreet. And Adolph Menjou's sodden-drunk recital of the way he got ahead by giving a friend and associate the shaft, is strong, frightening acting. In fact, for a movie presumably depending on the title and the names Kerr and Gable for its impact, the casting is excellent and expensive all down the line...