Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecutor, convicted an average of 15 murderers a year, chased grafters out of office and into prison. But he drew no particular joy from his victories in criminal cases. Said he: "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach...
...fine. Out of a rather stiff and unremarkable score, with few melodic arias and a mediocre book, Conductor Bernstein produced a lively and dramatic show. At the end, white-tied Milanese cheered up half a dozen curtain calls for leading Soprano Maria Callas and Bernstein, leaned into the orchestra pit to compliment the musicians, and filed out into the plush lobby gesticulating to each other like conductors. The" critics chimed in. Bernstein, wrote top Critic Giulio Confalonieri, is "absolutely predestined to music." Milan's eminent Corriere della Sera called him "indisputably brilliant." One of few sour notes came from...
...Arizona Cattle Growers Association, in collecting evidence of vandalism by deer and elk hunters, heard from one rancher who found a cake of soap floating in his galvanized iron cattle-watering trough this fall, and then discovered a pit containing wood ashes beneath it. A luxury-loving hunter, he deduced, had not only taken a bath in the trough but had carefully heated the water first. Another hunter, according to the association's files, rode out on the range in search of game, dismounted to reconnoiter, sighted an animal, shot it, rushed up, knife in hand, to slit...
...bodies in ten graves. At the bottom of each grave were two corpses with bullet holes in the tops of their skulls; the other victims had been shot in the skull from behind. Said Grantskalns: "The only explanation we could make was that . . . two were chosen to dig the pit and then shot when they had finished, [and the rest] were shot at the edge of the pit...
...well as his temperature up, and he goes around raging, "Hussy, Slut, Saucebox, Boldface-come hither!" Shamela takes to her bedroom instead, but carefully leaves the door unlatched (Pamela always locked hers). When Pamela's door was forced, she would faint dead away, but when the squire comes "pit a pat into [Shamela's] Room in his Shirt," Sham flashes some impromptu but effective jujitsu...