Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oscilloscope and gets a tracing of this in ink. Dr. (ex-pilot) Barr has two models: one with a range of a mile, one with a range of 80 to 100 miles that he uses to study aviators' hearts. He hopes to adapt this to catch the pit-a-pat of the first stout heart to ride a satellite...
...Hingham were a philosopher instead of a life-insurance salesman, he might sum himself up by saying: "I dread, therefore I am." The realest thing about young Hal, a tenth-rate agent for Arcadia Life, is the queasy feeling in the pit of his stomach when he faces his boss, his girl, or anyone else. As he somnambulates through life with a nagging sense of being out of step, people bump into him as if he were invisible, and prospects look out the window when he wants them to sign on the dotted line. Snaps his girl friend Rose...
...ever since, mostly during the summer doldrums. This time we asked these pros to prejudge the response to seven letters, each making a different appeal to the same number and kind of prospects during the test period. Advertising Director John McLatchie wrote them: "It's a chance to pit your advertising judgment against those supreme judges of anyone's advertising -the customers themselves." Though there was actually no first-place winner this summer, the sweeps seemed to generate so much excitement in the advertising world that we decided to upgrade the leaders one place...
...braked his Jag and swung to the right toward the pit. Behind him, Britain's Lance Macklin in an Austin-Healey, running four laps slower than the leader, was caught short. He braked hard and swung left. Behind the Austin-Healey was Pierre Levegh's No. 20 Mercedes, tearing along at 150 m.p.h. Levegh raised his arm in a slowdown wave for his teammate, Argentine Juan Fangio, 100 yards astern. The man who had wondered about the need for signals was beyond their salvation: this one was his last gesture...
Skittering and screeching along the pit's wall, the Austin-Healey ran down a row of mechanics, but Driver Macklin escaped with his life. Nearly 50 yards back of the pits a young girl jumped and screamed as a flying foot hit her. Bits of bodies and pieces of machinery rained everywhere...