Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family is spending as much as 25% of its annual food budget (a nationwide total of $215 billion a year) on restaurant and instant meals?which also have greatly improved in recent years. It may be that when family and friends get together for a home-cooked dinner, they pit their skills against the pros and make it a repast to remember...
...night that covers me Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul...
...weeks, a crew of red-suited blowout experts battled to cap the wild well. A crane removing a ten-ton piece of wellhead plumbing was smashed like a Tinkertoy, when the gas jet tossed the load into the air. The crew succeeded in diverting the gas to an open pit, where they set it ablaze to prevent an accidental explosion. By the end of September, workers managed to pipe the gas through a purifying plant and into a pipeline, through which it flowed at an uncontrolled rate of 140 million cu. ft. per day. Says Chevron's Exploration Manager...
Harrah's is literally run by the book. More than 50 operations manuals, written by executives over the past quarter of a century, spell out everything from window-washing policy to the importance of maintaining a businesslike decorum. The company's pit bosses are referred to as administrators, and cocktail waitresses taking orders at the craps tables are instructed to call out, to the bartender, say, "Two double Scotches for C" instead of shouting the word craps. Every effort is made to dispel the rowdy, green eyeshade image of gambling. New croupiers are taught the "theory of craps...
...luxuriant celebration of the pleasures of the flesh. Accordingly, every element in this production was pushed to abnormally heightened intensity. With the placement of the accompanying Harvard-Radcliffe choruses along the walls of the theater, the sound engulfed the audience from all sides, rather than just from the orchestra pit. And the visual scene was intensified by the moving colored lights and the looming shadows of the dancers projected onto a backdrop. And the choreography even stretched the body lines out of frame; a prevailing mode of movement used shoulders and elbows in a fluid geometry of angles and wedges...