Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roared past the fluttering starter's flag in last week's Indianapolis 500 rolled on identical Firestone tires and were powered by identical 350-h.p. Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engines.* In the family feud that followed, what counted were the driver's skill, the speed of his pit crew-and pure luck...
Just before the competition began, one of the sponsors emerged from a conference with the jittery girls, and said, "It's like a snake pit in there. One of them's reciting poetry, and one's singing to herself." Earlier, he had urged the judges to get the girls' home, school, and even summer addresses ("in case we need them for something during the summer...
...construction workers uncovered the bones of a Columbia mammoth. A team of Harvard students working in Wyoming under the direction of George Irwin 1G and Cynthia C. Irwin 3G quickly joined a crew of University of Wyoming professors and students in the tedious work of digging in the swampy pit...
...pedantic voice. There was Litzmannstadt, where Jews were gassed in a closed truck: "All the time, I was trying to avert my gaze from what was going on. It was quite enough for me what I saw. The screaming and shrieking!" When the truck stopped at an open pit, "the corpses were hurled into the ditch. I also saw how teeth were being extracted. I entered my car and I did not want to look at this heinous act of turpitude...
Next, Eichmann's averted but all-seeing eye was at Minsk, where a huge ditch was filled with living Jews: "They were shooting into the pit, and I saw a woman, her hands seemed tied behind her back, and then my knees went weak and I went away." But not far, for he was soon watching another mass execution near by. "There was a trench-already filled, and there was a kind of spring of blood gushing from the earth, and this, too, I had never seen before. I had had enough and went back to Berlin...