Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single couch for Isolde (not a sign of the usual sail or sailors); there was no castle in Act II and none of the customary trees in Act III. The stage sloped so steeply that Tristan on his couch almost seemed in danger of rolling into the orchestra pit...
...relaxed, he pronounced himself "in better condition than I was two weeks ago, though I had a little trouble sleeping the first night because the sun never seems to set in this country." In his dark blue U.S. Olympic sweatshirt, he was working out at the pole-vault pit, with Rev. Bob Richards, voluble and intense, giving him a few tips on how to improve his vaulting form...
...Republicans, after 20 years in the wilderness, go about estimating whether Taft or Eisenhower is the champion to pit against the Democrats? In the long history of popular politics, only two ways of tackling this problem have been devised: 1) the polls, and 2) the pols...
...rosy-cheeked colleens from the South Boston slums. He sent Joe Knowles, a nature lover, into the Maine woods to prove that a man could live like Adam, without clothing or utensils. Knowles came back with the skin of a bear he claimed to have trapped in a pit, wore it through Boston's streets before one of the biggest crowds in the city's history. When jeering Hearstmen claimed to have found a bullet hole in the bearskin, Knowles went back to Maine, and in front of witnesses clubbed to death a New Brunswick bear which...
...fine throw by first baseman Russ Johnson out down another run at the plate, but then Wahlers--a more J.V. at the start of the year--touched Crimson reliever Bob ward for a line double to knock in the insurance tally. Coach Stuffy Melanins had in insert his fourth pit other of the day--pat Groper--before the inning could be ended...