Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston men call it the "snake pit." To their wives and daughters, it is the "fabulous FABB." By any name, Filene's Automatic Bargain Basement is the town's most riotous mob scene since the Boston Massacre...
...Speedway. In the stands, thousands of fans cheered their favorites as big-league factory teams fought for that extra profit a racing victory always brings. Around and around the four-mile course, the world's best drivers gunned their big machines, each one perfectly tuned and tended by pit crews capable of performing mechanical marvels with spectacular ease. The speeds were startling, the promise of disaster ever present...
...powered by triple Mercury engines, jumped into the lead, held it for 1½ hours, then shrieked into a turn at 70 m.p.h., cut the corner too close and grazed the bottom. The mistake cost him two propellers and part of one engine. Incredibly, Mercury's six-man pit crew repaired the damage in barely 20 minutes. But by then it was too late. Outboard Marine's Cesare Scotti, a tough little Italian marina operator, had taken the lead...
...Creek to plant some trees, clean the place up and shore up the banks with rocks and logs. I only stayed a couple of hours, but it was really nice. I worked hard carrying rocks, and there were lots of apples, oranges, and singing. We even built a barbecue pit...
...word spread. Dozens of visitors sometimes attended discussion meetings in the austere study of the abbey known as "The Pit." More and more people started dropping in for a few hours or to stay for a few days. When the news of Dom Besret's dismissal got out, some 12,000 people made their way to the monastery to attend Sunday Mass. Students from Rennes and Brest universities threatened to march on Boquen and occupy it in protest. The local bishop strongly approved of Dom Besret's experiment, which, he said, "was followed with sympathy and hope...