Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...path to be followed in the future. I myself am doubtful about that. I attach the greatest importance to Anglo-American collaboration for the future. But I do not think that as what I might call a political axis it will do. If you were to pit the British Commonwealth plus the United States against the rest of the world, it would be a very lopsided world. So we come back to where we started: namely, the trinity...
...Last month he did it again (posthumously) in Long, Long Ago, a very satisfactory second course to his highly comestible While Rome Burns (TIME, March 12, 1934). Most of Wooll-cott's plums are still on the sugary side, but the best ones have a pleasantly astringent pit...
...about-the-postwar-travel-boom was to see if the traffic would bear a 20% increase in passenger fares. They found out: the U.S. automobile and bus industries, then in swaddling clothes, grew up almost overnight, while the railroads started down the long toboggan toward the almost bottomless pit of 1932.* Last week Railway Age, in its annual Passenger Progress issue, published a survey of what railroad executives propose to do for the postwar passenger this time. Their "practically unanimous opinion...
...were scurrying for cover as grenades burst a jew paces away or a stream of bullets parted the leaves overhead. About noon word was passed to prepare for a bombing attack. We dived for cover and I found myself waist-deep in water in a swampy pit. Whenever we took cover Jap snipers popped out and bullets would whine through our entire area. About three o'clock there was an especially sharp burst, and a visiting correspondent who had landed late and could not understand why we were nervous beat us to the bottom of our foxhole. When...
...dragged a Taxco policeman. Two others confessed that they had been hired to do in the man of Taxco. Taxco's mayor, a citizens' committee and the officials of American Smelting Co., which has twelve mines in the vicinity, decided at long last that the pit had its fill. Workmen were sent to seal the Devil's Nostril. When they are finished, 20 ft. of logs, concrete and boulders will cover its secrets...