Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, at a state dinner in Boston's Copley-Plaza Hotel, the General surreptitiously flipped an olive pit at his two married daughters, blew kisses, beamed happily at his wife. But as he rose to speak -still wearing his pistol-tears rolled down his cheeks and his high, thin voice grew almost inaudible. He sat down after less than five minutes, put a big handkerchief to his face. Then he lighted a big cigar...
...McClure haunted his usual bowling habits in favor of the "Diamond Horseshoe," better known as "The Pit." He was joined in his crimson by a portly gent from Wisconsin called Rob Rollain. We spied, about simultaneously with the house detective, our able friend Fred Diloreto eyeing the patrons in a local hotel with romance on his versatile mind...
...only the balcony of Sanders, and just remove the orchestra seats-the straw-floored pit would not be favored by modern theatre-goers-would present difficulties. In the first place, many of HD's sponsors are old creatures who will eat up Shakespeare but who wouldn't be able to see or hear unless they were well in front. The idea was pretty startling, moreover, for people who can't see choice seats going to waste for the sake of antiquity. It would have been a little difficult, too, to seat an assortment of Elizabethan fops on stage, or perhaps...
...Party, and political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself a cool million, got temporarily suspended. In 1934, Angler Howell reeled in a 956-lb. tuna to cop the world's record...
...horror of the Nazi concentration camps is the horror of humanity itself when it has surrendered to its capacity for evil. ... In the Nazis and beyond them we are looking into the very pit of hell which men disclose yawning within themselves when they . . . deny the sacredness of human personality...