Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When The Snake Pit appeared with a splash of acclaim in 1949, its brutal realism blinded the public eye and aroused a good deal of righteous indignation. Six years of national reflection on the inadequacy of mental hospitals has brought little reform. Hearsay from PBH Volunteers seems to refute accusations that the movie was more imaginative than truthful. Reconsideration shows that it has both qualities...
...course of weapons-testing, it was inevitable that the U.S. Army sooner or later would pit its prized Nike (rhymes with Mikey) antiaircraft guided missile against the Air Force's pet Martin Matador jet bomber missile, an "uninhabited"' aircraft. The Nike-Matador aerial duel was held at White Sands Proving Grounds, N.Mex. this fall-and it promptly set off a ground war between Army and Air Force pressagents...
...varsity hockey team will play one practice period against the 1956 U.S. Olympic team early next month, before the Olympians leave for Europe, it was learned yesterday. The scrimmage could well pit at least one Crimson hockey alumnus against his former teammates...
...feeling I might be looking into eternity," recalled a witness to an atomic-explosion test in 1952. "Space is annihilated; time is measured in millionths of seconds; temperatures approach those at the center of the sun. There is an empty feeling in the pit of the stomach when out of the stillness a great ball of light plunges into vision . . . a rush of heat, like the opening of a furnace door." The witness was obsessed by the horror of the explosion he had seen, and as the months passed, he grew to believe that if all men could...
...scraps were fitted onto a mockup, the evidence showed that the explosion had occurred in the rear cargo pit, in an area where there were no fuel lines or electric wires that might have caused an accidental explosion. The investigators concluded that the plane had been deliberately blown up by someone who had put a time bomb in the passengers' luggage. If so, it would be the first known case of successful sabotage in the history of U.S. commercial aviation...