Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's match against Dartmouth will be tough, exciting, and crucial. To be played at 3 p.m. on the Crimson's home courts, it will pit two excellent tennis teams against each other in an open bid for EITL supremacy...
...race the Crimson will pit a strong crew, stroked by Yann Weymouth, against the Engineers. Filled mainly with veterans of last year's undefeated freshman eight, the J.V. should have little trouble overcoming their rivals from downriver...
...easy, and lorded it over the darker, aboriginal inhabitants who are still known in Laos today as Kha (slaves). To the hills came a fierce assortment of immigrants: Black Thai and White Thai, Yao and Youne and Meo. Adept with the poisoned dart, the crossbow and the animal pit, the 80-odd hill tribes dislike the valley-dwelling Lao and number about half the country's 2,000,000 population...
...Previn sets his hand to it, the score emerges sounding as if it were written from the beginning to the measure of Previn's nervously elegant style. For those who prefer their scores straight, the Camelot Original Cast Album (Columbia) presents Julie Andrews, Richard Burton and a standard pit orchestra in the show's highly engaging tunes; one in particular, Follow Me, is heard here far more clearly than it ever is in the theater...
...short-lived. At 7 ft. 2 in., Brumel went over on his first jump. Three times Thomas leaped, and three times he carried the bar with him into the sawdust-filled pit. Still not finished, Brumel asked officials to raise the bar to 7 ft. 3 in.-and cleared it by a full 4 in., tying Thomas' world indoor record. Hurrying now, he made three quick attempts at 7 ft. 5 in., missed them, all narrowly. But Russia's Brumel had shown more than enough for a still-improving 18-year-old. Another day, another record...