Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Dante's Inferno, Communism has its different levels of horror and misery. At the bottom of the pit, by almost any measure, lies Albania. Last week a Cabinet minister of Albania's still strongly Stalinist government, Major General Panajot Plaku, fled his rugged country, at night crept along mountain paths he had known as a partisan in World War II, and crossed into Yugoslavia. Plaku is the most important ranking Communist among the 5,000 to 6,000 Albanians who have fled his benighted country since...
...Sargant sees it, the Inquisition used fear (i.e., of immediate torture or of eternity in the fiery pit) more than torture itself to stupefy an accused so that he readily confessed his heresy. Sargant glibly equates this with Communist techniques for extorting confessions and brainwashing and credits Russians and Chinese Reds with having refined their methods after a study of Pavlov...
...mother arrived home to find a town-strong task force deployed across her lawn. Firemen had lowered a hose to Benny and were pumping oxygen into the airless hole. In the eerie shadows cast by searchlights, trucks disgorged tools, timber, volunteers. Rescue workers were feverishly digging a pit ten feet from Benny's shaft and parallel to it. A power shovel clanked in to speed the digging, but had to give up only four feet down when the pit caved in. A dozen men stepped back into the hole with hand shovels, shoring up the crumbling walls every foot...
Public & Private. The project was the idea of Czech-born Conductor Franz Allers. 51, a maestro of melting musical-comedy scores (Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon). Conductor Allers yearned for meatier material, and in 1947 he persuaded a bunch of the boys from the Brigadoon pit to get together in off-hours to try their hand at a little Debussy, Mozart and Beethoven. When Allers took over the baton in Fair Lady, some of the singers asked him to continue his out-of-hours musicmaking. Result: the Allers opera workshop, which in short order sang, without sets or costumes, Mozart...
Yale will pit its greater depth against the varsity track team's brilliance Saturday in an attempt to become the first favored team to defeat the highly competitive Crimson this season. The meet will begin at 1:30 p.m. at Yale's DeWitt Cuyler Field...