Word: shafting
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...familiar character of modern fiction, the wanderer who can in habit diverse places and situations as naturally as a hermit crab crawls into an abandoned shell. Unlike Edward, she accepts age and solitude without feeling boredom. Unlike Stephen, she can draw pleasure from watching dust motes dance in a shaft of light...
Flickering torchlights and wine forced between her lips .. . With a feeling of shock she found her thighs nudged apart .. . There was a stabbing shaft of agony. Her last thought, as she slipped into a state halfway between sleep and unconsciousness was, "And I don't even know his name...
...gutta percha ball required a more resilient shaft; the solution was supplied by hickory, which reigned supreme until the advent of steel in the age of Bobby Jones...
Finney has just turned 29--a year from 30, he notes, which will soon give way to 40--and he asks for a separation. To do what? his wife asks. "To shaft a thousand women," he cries, tearing at the colorless wallpaper that symbolizes their insipid existence. But Finney can as yet only dream about escape, and he rants and howls with frustration when he cannot muster the courage to cash in on his desire for all "the young...
...Cambridge Electron Accelerator yesterday injured eight Harvard and MIT scientists and research technicians, three of them critically. The multi-million dollar explosion ripped apart the entire roof of the circular experiment section of the CEA complex, severely damaged a $1,000,000 hydrogen bubble chamber, and destroyed an elevator shaft in the adjoining administrative section of the structure...