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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

With a short fanfare from the pit, the show got under way. A prim looking kickline pranced around the stage, fully clothed, as the Golden Voiced male singer implored the audience to "Have fun, you sonofagun, have fun!" Two of the soldiers in the balcony craned forward, eyeing the chorus. They got up to leave...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: Come Back, Little Shiva | 2/27/1954 | See Source »

...mother (as in Goethe), Faust orders the Devil to rescue her. Only then is he forced to sell his soul, and the two strike their bargain to the coldly disinterested sound of remote hunting-horns. Mephisto, cheating, leads Faust not back to his love but straight to the Pit; Marguerite ascends to Heaven...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Damnation of Faust | 2/23/1954 | See Source »

...should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Nightmare | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...pit full of fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Nightmare | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...game will pit the offensive prowess of the Middies, who walloped Pittsburgh, 108 to 73, earlier this week against the tight defensive play of the crimson, which currently leads the East in that department. If the varsity is able to hold Navy, it should be able to stop anybody, for tonight's opponent may well be its toughest of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Quintet Favored to Top Varsity Five In I.A.B. Test Tonight | 2/6/1954 | See Source »

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