Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race is at two miles and will pit the mighty three-year-old colt against one of his chief peer rivals, Amberoid, as well as older horses. It can be seen on the Race of the Week, channel...
Schuller's score is starkly modern, laced with traditional and atonal improvisations by a septet of jazz musicians who share the pit with the full orchestra. In one impressive orchestral interlude, the foreboding of violence is achieved by the integration of threatening crowd noises broadcast through loudspeakers in the rear of the auditorium, sustained, jaggedly dissonant chords from the orchestra, and frantic improvisations from the jazz combo. At the curtain, the Hamburg audience exploded in a great ovation, called Boatwright back again and again for bows...
KHARTOUM. Laurence Olivier as the malevolent Madhi and Charlton Heston as the mystic General "Chinese" Gordon pit their gods against each other in an epic struggle for control of the Nile...
Last week Jack got what Jack wanted, but it took an awful lot of desire. The course this year was Scotland's Muirfield links beside the Firth of Forth, a seaside torture pit that resembles Verdun after the battle. Bunk ers like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same...
With these new products coming out, with more cattle and hogs to feed on soy meal, with rising estimates for 1966-67 soybean demand and with late crops in sight, it looks as if the excitement in the bean pit is far from over...