Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, the Arab-Asian nations, blandly encouraged by the Soviet bloc, had picked a most sensitive and questionable case in which to pit their whim against the loosely worded U.N. Charter prohibition against meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations. Unlike Morocco, a protectorate, Algeria is, in French eyes, at least as much a part of France as Alaska is part of the U.S. This much of the French case the U.S. supported when it voted with France against any U.N. debate...
Nobody ever writes about the mental side of sex-doctors are board with it, psychologists are scared of it, and philosophers are too smart to pit their neat little thoughts against such a monster issue. The undergraduate who investigates the subject is more often than not groping in the dark. If you're feeling ontological, you can go to the library and find lots of company. But if you feel like a big black tomcat at dusk, all you can do is yowl...
...musical comedy, which opens December 2 in the newly remodeled Hasty Pudding Theatre, will feature instead its usual all-male cast, accompanied by a professional 11-piece band. He, Wright Briggs '31, Director of the University Band, will conduct the pit orchestra...
Israel struck oil last week, right on the fringe of the Negeb desert and only six miles from the Gaza strip. Rushing to the spot from Tel Aviv, Premier Designate David Ben-Gurion clambered down into a pit and dug to watch the first flow of the stuff. "Mazel Tov [Congratulations]," he murmured to the drillers. "When can we start to use the stuff?" Development Minister Dov Joseph hurried off by car to the Weizmann Institute of Science 25 miles away with a pop-bottleful to be assayed...
Susceptible Skin. In the 16 years of waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die. Catherine had ample time for self-study. Isolated by sycophants and informers, the young Duchess had no friends to turn to in the Russian court, which, for all its Frenchified airs, was a bear pit of intrigue and malevolence. "One could lay a wager that half the court could hardly read, and I would be surprised if more than a third could write," noted Catherine, who was soon wading through the classics of courtcraft (Tacitus, Plutarch, Montesquieu) and such French philosophers as Voltaire...