Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if a clear and authentic last testament by Hughes is found, a gigantic scramble for the remaining money seems certain to break out anyway. That fight, which could have incalculable consequences, would pit Hughes' long-estranged, patrician Houston relatives against a triumvirate of insiders at Hughes' Summa Corp., the umbrella company formed in 1972 to oversee his vast holdings...
...seconds, pit bosses held the dice at the crap tables; dealers shoed the cards at the 21 games; croupiers stopped the roulette wheels; and the casinos fell silent as players restively eyed their watches and women stared vacantly into their paper cups full of quarters in front of the slots. Sentiment not being a major commodity in Vegas, one man in the Desert Inn muttered when it was over, "Okay, he had his minute. Let's deal...
...balcony. She anticipated every light cue by anxiously looking up seconds before it was scheduled to go on. She unconsciously willed audience reaction to every funny line or song by laughing or clapping just a little before they did. Two musicians in black tuxedos from the pit orchestra joined her. They collapsed in hysterics at every joke even though they've seen all the performances...
BAUDELAIRE ONCE SAID that the devil's deepest wile is to persuade humans that he doesn't exist. There is no danger of Malachi Martin making that mistake; he is convinced that Satan and the Pit do and always have existed. Modern Christians who no longer believe in hell or the devil as realities will find in Martin's Hostage to the Devil a well-articulated, and disturbing reaffirmation of traditional doctrines about evil and Lucifer...
Crying "Tommy can you hear me," the Currier and Eliot House pinball teams went head to head yesterday in the first round of a challenge match at Currier House. For the gamesters who would rather pursue silver balls than gold nuggets, the time had come to pit the forces of their souls against gravity and the hated "drain...