Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young "Nyrin" became the society's most vocal member. In a drab little shop, whose dusty windows bore the society's name in proud gilt letters, the committee met each week. Around the bare table sat 30 miners, some straight from the pit, the coal dust still runneled into their sweat-sticky faces. Bevan always spoke precisely and to the point. He had suffered from a bad stammer (caused by an uninformed but successful effort to "correct" his left-handedness), but had overcome it by reciting Shakespeare out loud and forcing himself to speak up in public...
...went down into the pit. Carrying his "snaps" (miner's lunch), he rode to the pithead with his mates in the special streetcars reserved for the miners -so that they would not dirty other passengers. He found that miners lived in a segregated world of their own. He began to carry a big chip on his shoulder. Once a supervisor asked him why he did not take off his jacket while he worked. "There's nothing in the Mine Act that says I have to," snapped Bevan...
...Pennsylvania," wrote one man in answer to the question "State of Health?") Each morning, after 7:30 a.m. reveille, there were fresh, mimeographed "orders of the day." Sample: 9:30-Unit A to batting cages 1 & 2; Unit B to pitcher's balk practice; Unit C to sliding pit practice. At the blast of a whistle, students shifted to the next class...
...Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland in a hard-hitting version of the bestseller about mental illness (TIME...
...Snake Pit (20th Century...