Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General's Wench has a happy ending. Sir John arrives at the whipping post with his usual ploof. The lawyer falls through a trap door; his accomplice is dropped into a pit of lime. There was "an awful sizzling as Alfy began to cook...
Just after dawn, the Abilene airport picked up his voice: he was announcing by radio that he planned to crash the plane in a gravel pit and kill himself as soon as he used up his fuel supply. "Everything's all messed up," he cried. For more than three hours his plane circled overhead. Friends flew to Abilene, joined airport and CAA officials in pleading with him by radio to land. Cried Cox: "If you had done what I did, you wouldn't land." At 9:55 Cox put his plane into a dive, hit the ground...
...greatest port. Amid this sensational expose of crooked politicos, corrupt cops, grafting labor leaders and swaggering gangsters in New Jersey and. New York, Anastasia emerged as a star performer despite himself. The ghost of Peter Panto, an insurgent longshoreman whose body was found in a New Jersey lime pit eleven years ago, came to haunt him-and to haunt New York's ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer...
...queen. But his money is soon stolen and he gets into deep trouble. Hauled up on a charge of attempted murder, he is examined and ordered to a lunatic asylum. Author Fallada spells out Sommer's life there in such emetic detail that it makes The Snake Pit sound like a country club...
Then Quincy's Acting Police Chief William Ferrazzi got into the act. One night as he was lying in bed he decided that Lady Wonder had just gotten her words a little garbled in transmission. She had really meant Field & Wilde's water pit, an abandoned local quarry. It all came to him, said Ferrazzi later "just like a boot in the rear end." He hurried to tell Dewing. So last week the quarry was drained and the boy's body was found...