Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain was struggling in the economic pit. France was stumbling toward it. Germany lay almost prone in it. China staggered on with no one to lend a helping hand...
Miners at the Brynhenllys mine in Wales struck for an even more trivial reason. There 300 men wildcatted because Will Rees was assigned a new pit pony, named "Britton," instead of his five-year favorite "Bomber." They returned to work only when Rees got Bomber back...
...glided in, it narrowly missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks to draw the bodies of Nelson Pell and his passengers from the fire...
...orchestral onslaught on dictatorship. What was left unsaid by the orchestra was sung by the chorus, which Einem employed as Mussorgsky did in Boris Godunov, as the real protagonist of the drama. There were few arias, and most of them were drowned in the dissonant thunder from the pit...
Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Cook, 86, who went to work as a pit boy in an English coal mine at the age of nine, later moved to Australia where he was one of the early members of the New South Wales Labor Party, then turned to the Right and rose from the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of Australia (1913-14); of a heart ailment; in Sydney...