Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House staff bristled warily when Harold Stassen telephoned to ask for an appointment with the President. The deep, dark, staff-level suspicion: Childe Harold might be looking for a chance to resign from his job as Disarmament Adviser and claim martyrdom in his lonely campaign to pit Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter against Dick Nixon for the Republican vice-presidential nomination (TIME, Aug. 6). Back went a call to Stassen: Just what did he have in mind? Replied Harold: he wanted the President's permission to take a month's leave to expand his pro-Herter activities. With...
Jordan officials, who inspected a model pit privy set up by ICA, quickly issued a formal request through diplomatic channels, found that ICA was eager to help out. The U.S. developed a plan to furnish three-inch-thick concrete slabs in the proper design. The Jordanians would dig the necessary pits, build optional surrounding structures...
...body leveled, Charley Dumas swung his right foot over the bar and then jackknifed his left safely past. His belly scraped the bar−ever so barely. Dumas could hear the roar from the crowd before his body hit the sawdust of the pit. He had broken through the great barrier...
Easy Ride. Like every other driver except Russo, Pat Flaherty rode behind a four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine that whined up to 6,000 r.p.m. as it put out about 350 h.p. But his engineer and pit chief, A. J. Watson, had planned for the problems of the hopped-up track. The Zink Special had been shaved down four inches in width, its side panels fabricated from magnesium to reduce weight. Its tires, as a result, had an easy ride. Flaherty needed only two pit stops, averaged 128.49 m.p.h. for the 500 miles. Most important of all, his luck...
...place hollowed out of rock; 600 bars of silver . . . Close by, below the southern corner of the portico at Zadok's tomb, and underneath the pilaster in the exedras, a vessel of incense in pine wood and a vessel of incense in cassia wood ... In the pit near by, towards the north, near the grave, in a hole opening to the north, there is a copy of this book with explanations, measurements and all details...