Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guarantees. Reasoner's appeal to devotees is his ability to cloak the pit falls of life in smiles. His rueful comment on losing a billfold, with all its credit cards and documents of identity: "Life is laid out there on the desk, the circumspection of a respectable existence, and I'd hate to spend another day with nothing but an honest face to prove my right to a place in the Great Society." Sometimes accused of being too light, Reasoner said in an interview last week: "I think light is just as much a part of news...
...This rust has started to pit the metal," said the Canadian. "Therefore it was not fired recently...
Millen Brand is like an English major who minored in psychology and never feels quite sure that it shouldn't have been the other way around. Author of The Outward Room and coauthor of the screenplay for The Snake Pit, he has served long enough as a psychiatric aide to become vocationally confused about his main role as a journeyman novelist. Brand's raw material- case histories detailing the unorthodox treatment of psychotics in the late 1940s- obsesses him at the expense of his craft. Anything approaching the tragic finally escapes him, but in this best-selling novel...
This Monday everyone involved at Paine Hall is at least a little scared. Some of the students are banding together in a bloc, trying to come up with a "a joint statement." They are huddling together defiantly against the outer dark. They are trying to devise a "strategy" to pit against the "strategy" the deans will use "to split them." I do not know what the Deans or the Faculty are thinking. They are angry no doubt that important principles have been violated. And perhaps they are still troubled by the nightmare of what happened in May in Morningside Heights...
...Yardlings' main problem will be stopping Army's John Ferguson, a versatile swimmer whom Army may use in a variety of places in the Cadets' opener. Crimson coach Benn Merritt wants to pit Ackerman against Ferguson...