Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuffed with a cloven corpse. In No. 21's furnace they found four charred female bodies. In No. 21's closets they picked up assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s' Bluebeard of Gambais, slaughtered ten women...
...ovation in the history of Broadway's Paramount Theater - on his first theater date since he was paroled from San Quentin last summer on a narcotics charge. He was sitting at the drums with Tommy Dorsey's band when it rose in the dark out of the pit. There had been no announcement that he was back. Hepcats in the audience saw him before the lights went up. They started murmuring. The opening number was Gettin' Sentimental Over You. Four thousand enthusiasts shouted and beat their hands off. Drummer Krupa wept on his drums...
...Discontented. The mines are short of miners, those at work are unhappy. Among factors contributing to the miners' discontent: 1) threatened conscription of youths from mining families for pit jobs; 2) the feeling that peace will bring no improvement in working conditions or security; 3) distrust of union leaders; 4) resentment caused by the Government decrees which returned men in the armed forces or war factories to the lower-paid jobs in the mines...
...India, a sergeant who had been a Cleveland molder cast a sour look at the local foundry facilities: a fire in a sand pit, with hollows scooped in the ground for molds. There were no furnaces, patterns or flasks. So he made his own. With a furnace of firebrick taken from the town dump, his three enlisted men and several Indians turn out 500 different items from junkyard aluminum and used brass cartridge cases...
...Next Ring. For the most part, Charley Wilson's passionate outburst dropped into an almost bottomless pit of editorial unconcern. But his words, coming from an impeccably Big Businessman, did not fall on deaf ears in the Waldorf's pink and gold Grand Ballroom-which contained at the time the very ears for which they were presumably intended...