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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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McNulty and Murphy came back from the mile to turn in a respectable three-four finish in the 1000, but it was at the pole vault pit that the master performance of the day was taking place...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Trackmen Blaze to Big Three Victory | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

JACKSON BROWNE may well be the prototypical Southern California rock and roll star. Like the rest of the L.A. pop crowd, he's known for squeaky-clean vocals, introspection run rampant, a reliance on the studio pit crew of J.D. Souther, and Eagles Don Henley, Glenn Frey et al, and an obsession with The Road. The latter has been the dominant image in his music since his second album, both as a metaphor for change and a literal determinant of modern life. "Take It Easy" and "The Road and the Sky," from his second and third albums respectively, were...

Author: By Bill Barol, | Title: Angst on Wheels | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...might lead an unsuspecting reader to believe that if the bricks had been here in September the building would have been completed months ago. As one of your first articles of the year pointed out, at that time the dining hall wasn't much more than a large pit. Today it is still nowhere near ready for the bricks which have supposedly been holding up construction for four months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bricks'n'Bats | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...years were scarring. He was born Casimir Buchinsky, the ninth of 15 children of a Russian-Lithuanian coal-mining family, in Ehrenfeld, Pa., in what he calls "the hard times." The family slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing an older sister's hand-me-down dress and chewing tobacco to compensate for the skirt. "I come from a harder life than most characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Then Came Bronson... | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...definition (the Greek word evangelion means gospel), Evangelicals also believe in bringing the word of God to their fellow man, and today they are bringing it more exuberantly than ever. The faithful throng to gaudy superchurches with 5.000 to 10,000 seats, green shag wall-to-wall carpeting, pit orchestras and Jesus rock bands. From such places the message rolls out, often multiplied many times over on TV programs or projected by satellite to impromptu global parishes of 20 million or more at a time. The message rings out, too, at the early morning pre-work prayer meetings held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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