Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game, rated a tossup, will pit the Crusaders' dangerous backfield against Harvard's solid defense but questionable offense...
...sent to Mavrino, a prison research institute outside Moscow. Mavrino is the setting of The First Circle. The title comes from Dante's Inferno, where the first circle of hell is peopled by the great men of antiquity?Homer, Socrates, Plato?who, too valuable to be thrown into the pit, were consigned to limbo. Mavrino is an institute carrying out KGB research projects, and as a prison it is bearable. There is meat. There is some comfort. There are even women. Yet this is still slave labor of the mind, and transfer to the labor camps can happen...
Sometimes there is more menace than reality to the Panthers' bloodthirsty bluster. Leaders justifiably claim that they helped cool the summer by arguing against riots that pit blacks against an overwhelming white force. Yet they cry for an ultimate bloody upheaval at some future time when blacks will have a tactical advantage. A heavy majority of Negroes reject this sort of thing as ridiculous mumbo jumbo. But many moderates are too intimidated by the Panthers to speak out, and quite a few like the way they stand up to white authority and foster black pride. But unless the white...
Conglomerate Miner. In 1959, the firm added "Mining" to its name in order to reflect newer operations that now account for 65% of its revenues. "Mining is our upward thrust," says Littlefield. The thrust started when Utah decided to adapt its earth-moving skills to open-pit mining projects. It has since become, in effect, a conglomerate miner...
...1950s, the Menninger brothers wrought a transformation at the nearby state hospital. Thanks to their lobbying, the old snake pit was replaced by attractive modern buildings. Topeka State abandoned its bars, chains and straitjackets and began returning "incurable" mental patients from the shadows of its back wards. (One woman was released after 53 years in confinement.) Kansas led the states in the modernity and humanity of its approach to mental illness, and its budget of $8 a day for a patient's care was about the nation's highest. But that was a dozen years...