Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses and drafty barrooms. When the wind is right, the indescribable perfume of some of the world's most thoroughly fermented tidal flats profanes the air. Jersey politics-a hatchery for grasping bosses-rests in this setting as comfortably as a bloated grapefruit floating in a sump pit...
Other weekend baseball events pit the Crimson J.V. against Newton Jr. College at Newton, and the powerful freshman team against Holy Cross...
...House first boats will flail the Charles this afternoon as preliminary races for the crew championship are hold at 5:30 and 6 p.m. The drawing pit Eliot against Leverett, Dunster, and Dudley in the first race, while favored Winthrop faces Kirkland, Lowell, and Adams in the second...
...early September speeches, like "On the Nature of Liberalism" (New York City) and "On Political Morality" (Los Angeles) were written before the real fighting began. They are more philosophy than politics. But as the campaign became more bitter, as he was pulled off his podium into the political snake pit, the quality slips. Only a few times in the last few weeks could he match his first efforts. Perhaps he came closest in the Mormon Tabernacle on October 14, where he said...
...Tower Theater in downtown Atlanta, an overflow crowd spilled into the orchestra pit, backed up into the aisles; outside, latecomers shoved at the doors. The show had barely got underway when the night was rent by keening sirens, and fire engines roared to the theater entrance...