Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match of the day will pit the Crimson's number one player, Johnny Rauh, against sophomore Doc Houk. The former Andover and Bruin freshman star was the outstanding player at Brown last year and has improved on the circuit over the summer. But Rauh, no slouch himself, is rated...
...boar, an old one and cunning, broke cover near the chalk pit and charged straight for the line of trees that hid its edge. After him clattered the whole hunt-King Richard the Lion Heart in the lead. At the rim of the chalk pit the boar pivoted and scuttled off to safety, while the beguiled lead hounds fell yelping into space...
...readers, Author Duras' characters will have something of the fascination and strangeness of people from an exotic, outdoor Snake Pit. In France, where the book has already been published, it should confirm the widespread French conviction that there's no place like home...
...places: "The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably . . . The peculiar malady of my times . . . was . . . vacant freedom and indeterminate progress: Vorwärts! Avanti! Onward! Full speed ahead! without asking whether directly before you was not a bottomless pit...
That modern civilization was headed straight for the pit, Santayana had few doubts. From his contemplative seat on the sidelines of life, he issued a mixture of cool wisdom and cold comfort on the subject: "Things have their day, and their beauties in that day . . . Ruins give ground for hope; for although nothing can last forever, now and then good seasons may return...