Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlimited class in both the House and freshman matches promise two more close contests. The House bout will pit Ed Stump of Leverett against Denis Loring of Quincy, while the freshman heavyweights are Dave Sellinger and Eric Honick...
...year-old Social Relations concentrator may have as many as five post-regular season chances to add to his scoring total. "If we can get the number three spot in the ECAC," he says in reference to a ranking which would pit Harvard against Clarkson at Watson Rink. "I think we have a chance for the nationals...
...Pit Near Minsk. "Collective resistance," writes Miss Levin, "was never possible; by the time Jews grasped the reality that they were doomed to be killed no matter what they did, they were isolated, weakened and abandoned." And until that terrible moment, there was the diabolical "tease-and-terror seesaw" psychology of the Nazis, who deliberately "cultivated the illusion that there would be a way out." Until the war's very end, for example, Nazi propagandists billed the camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia as a kind of idyllic community, though for scores of thousands-including 15,000 of the more...
...their policy of Endlosung ("final solution") for the Jews, to Warsaw's Umschlagplatz, a transfer point to Treblinka, where a child's tongue was cut out "with a pocket knife for making a face at a guard." One chilling passage portrays Eichmann himself, standing over a killing pit near Minsk and watching a pleading Jewish mother hold up her baby just before the bullets strike. "I was so close that later I found bits of brains splattered on my long leather coat," Eichmann said afterward. "My driver helped me remove them. Then we returned to Berlin...
...fortunes of Madame Fleur has neither the strength nor the wit to profit by this scaled-down production. Arlen's charm-marinated score-which includes a rousing new wedding number called Jump de Broom-gains nothing from small voices onstage and a five-piece combo in the orchestra pit. Yolande Bavan as Ottilie is as pretty as she is unconvincing, and funky-voiced Josephine Premice brings a fine high style to the role of Madame Fleur. But if the 1954 House was too much, the 1968 one is too little...