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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 29, 1967 | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...slick from a fleet of autos used to ferry the chorus onstage, the girls are lucky to land on their toes and not their backsides. On one occasion a Rockette slipped in a cloud of steam hissing up through holes in the stage, plummeted into the orchestra pit and squashed a violinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chorus Girls: For 2 Cents a Kick | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...emptying food into the victim's stomach. A boy who claims that the institute is making his condition worse is answered with evasive jargon from a Kafkaesque staff. The 85-minute film offers no comment and no solution, but in its relentless expose of a present-day snake pit, it deserves to stand with works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle as an accusation and a plea for reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival Attraction, Side-Show Action | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...social duties when he was called to be a fourth at bridge for Lynda and two friends. The foursome soon shrank to a twosome. They spent the Labor Day holiday together outside Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on a stretch of sand known popularly as "Whisky Beach" or "the Passion Pit," which the Chamber of Commerce now wants renamed more decorously in honor of their courtship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: The Real Charlie | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...Hughes acquisition, the Sands Hotel. Drowning his sorrow after his casino credit was cut off at a mere $200,000, Sinatra 1) tried unsuccessfully to set fire to his suite, 2) jerked all the telephone jacks and trunk lines out of the hotel's switchboard, 3) promised a pit boss that "I'm gonna break both your legs," 4) overturned a table on the casino's credit manager who, in return, threw a punch that separated Frank from the caps on his two front teeth, and 5) announced that he was ending his 16-year association with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tycoons: Action in Las Vegas | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

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