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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently his spark plugs were fouled. Hill's B.R.M. pit crew heard the rough engine too. Graham caught their frantic signals, grimly poured it on. Drifting through the corners as tightly as possible, slipstreaming other cars to gain momentum before he passed, Hill began to eat into Clark's lead at the rate of 3 sec. or more a lap. Clark knew Hill was coming; he kept glancing over his shoulder, ducking back to fiddle with his controls, trying to coax some response out of his sputtering engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Close Call at Silverstone | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

Exactly 135 & Six. With all the Lotus' ailments, it was only natural that Clark should become a pretty good sidewalk mechanic. So good, in fact, that he could turn a practice lap, whisk back into the pit, and announce: "We've got to jiggle the gear ratios-25, 27 maybe. Even with a good tow, I'm not getting the revs." At the same time, he was polishing his driving skills to the point where he could say: "When I go into a corner, I can tell you instantly whether I'm inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Hero with a Hot Shoe | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...series of damnations. In the first circle, the innocent shades of pre-Christian times exist in peace. In the next four, the souls of the incontinent are tormented. Heresy, violence and fraud have their reward in the sixth, seventh and eighth circles, and traitors fill the bottom of the pit-a region not of everlasting fire but of eternal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...second circle, for instance, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca and tells the touching story of their tragic love. Unhappily, the canticle concludes with a large and, to modern readers, faintly ludicrous letdown: Satan. The Old Gentleman looks like King Kong and does nothing but sit in his pit and chomp on Judas Iscariot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...dialogue. One is truly embarrassed for poor Mr. Storer, Betsy's good Catholic father who hasn't been munion in 25 years, as up Mary, herself a rambles on tactlessly a incongruity of Betsy married to a Jew by a minister. And one picture fabulously ficinado Mrs. piddling around pit, pointing to the playing with the child explaining the motherhood...

Author: By A DOUGLAS Mathews, | Title: A Woman Should Have A Hobby. | 7/6/1965 | See Source »

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