Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russia's Valery Brumel danced a little jig to loosen his leg muscles. He lifted his left hand in a crisp salute-a signal that he was ready. Suddenly he was galloping violently toward the pit. His left foot slammed into the ground and his body hurtled upward-left arm tucked against his chest, right leg thrust high. He barely grazed the crossbar; then he was clear and falling, the bar quivering behind him. The jump measured 7 ft. 5 in., a new world's record. And as Brumel bounced joyfully from the sawdust pit, 81,000 people...
Sweeping the area, the Rangers destroyed two Viet Cong mantraps-camouflaged pits filled with barbed steel spikes. One pit was designed as an inverted cone so that if a leg were thrust into the trap, it would be impossible to pull it up again through the downward-pointing spikes. Rangers warned the U.S. observers examining the pits to avoid the barbs, which are usually covered with human excrement, or stronger poisons if available...
...second difficulty can be complained of little: the small orchestra necessitated by a theatre-in-the-round can hardly hope to cope with the Fledermaus overture, one of the treasures of light musical literature. All in all, Rudolph Bennet handles his small forces in the pit with considerable skill. The acoustics are good in the South Shore tent, and the voices were audible...
...crushed metal for shipment to steel mills to be melted down. Victims are taken for a ride in the good old-fashioned way. The car is then driven to a cooperating junkyard with the cadaver in its baggage compartment. A crane lifts the car into the steel-lined pit of the hydraulic press, where it takes just 90 seconds to reduce a 1962 Cadillac to a cube 36 in. high, 24 in. long and 24 in. wide. The result is then cleaned, coated with a metal preservative, and shipped off to the melting...
...Workers' Brotherhoods, who were defying Spain's Roman Catholic hierarchy as well as Franco's own police by egging on the strikers. Some priests were now under house arrest. At Mieres, in the heart of Asturias, 200 striking miners sat glumly at the bottom of their pit, refusing to return to the surface until local mine managers agreed to negotiate with the four local H.O.A.C. priests who were in custody...