Word: truss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look out of the windows on the left hand side of the subway train crossing the Charles St. bridge the next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over...
Naturally, a structure of such proportions was a spectacular job of engineering. Fifty thousand tons of steel rest on 50,000 cubic yards of concrete. The mammoth concrete piers on which the main truss rests go down some 83 feet below the water line--making these huge abutments the largest of their kind in the country. Dozens of homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building...
...remainder of the candidates staged a slogan war. Bill Bush pleaded, "Throw away that truss. Give your support to Bush." Briodo claimed he was "wanted by the Biddies," and Aldrich and Lauterstein hinted...
...shouted. "Aw, stuff a sock in it!" yelled a heckler in the crowd and promptly launched into a speech of his own. He had spent six'weeks in a hospital, his wife had a baby, his mother got spectacles and new dentures, his brother got a long-needed truss, and "all under this Labor government," he cried belligerently...
Pose of Arrogance. Worshipful Critic Eric Bentley, who has tried to truss Shavian doctrine into a system of thought, is one of the few who still pay unflagging homage to Shaw's ideas. For him Shaw is not merely a brilliant playwright who handled the English language with a clarity and wit unrivaled since Swift; Shaw is also a profound thinker whose "pose of arrogance was a deliberate strategy in an utterly altruistic struggle" to irritate men into thought. But the "utterly altruistic struggle" failed, and there was Shaw's tragedy: he, the court jester, was idolized...