Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the days of the Conquistadors Mexicans had heard cries in the night from that haunted spot near Taxco. They called the 20-ft.-wide hole in the ground the Devil's Nostril, knew it as a pit of death. How many skeletons were mouldering on the bottom, how deep it was, no man could say. Geologists had once probed 380 ft. straight down; one man had once descended part way, and lived to tell about it. He found two Aztec daggers...
Hitler's Problems. With this battered army, Hitler can, and will, launch local attacks. But he cannot pit his 220 Nazi and satellite divisions against the Red Army's estimated 275 wellarmed, well-led divisions with any chance of success. Today, Russia's might and the Allied threat in the west make upon him two stern demands: i) He must establish a strong defense line somewhere on the Eastern Front, and 2) he must hoard his precious reserves of men and materiel...
Sydney Page watched the little knot of men at the pit head as they handled the crumpled form of a badly injured miner. Sydney was 18 and worked aboveground at the Newstead Colliery in Nottinghamshire. The injured man was one of 200 seriously hurt each month in British mines, but he was the first casualty Sydney had seen...
Older miners understood. "Pit nerves" were common in youngsters; prison was no cure. Quietly, some 23,000 miners in 20 neighboring pits struck. The unions frowned, but the men stayed out. The Regional Fuel Controller intervened: "Without the power of compulsion, the Government could not control the war at all. . . ." Still the men stayed out. There was talk that showed that Page was just the spark: the men wanted to know when the Government's plans for a postwar new deal in the coalfields would materialize...
...sure, for "Othello," unlike most of Shakespeare's tragedies, has very little comedy--even with the addition of an over-ridiculed Roderigo. Therefore, the music provides the needed break in tenseness of the play. It is too bad, however, that there is not an adequate orchestra in the pit...