Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terry O'Reilly opened the scoring with a sharp wrist shot at 3:45 of the first period. Ten minutes later, Jean Ratelle followed suit to give the Bruins a 2-0 lead, but Pit Martin responded for Chicago, taking a pass from Dennis Hull for a breakaway goal...
Kinsley, a Rhodes scholar and a former Crimson editor, said writing the book, which took him four years and numerous revisions, had been a 'bottomless pit...
...Communism" of the Soviet Union. It depicts a conversation between two birds, one a giant roc that soars over the earth, with "the blue sky on its back," and the other a timid sparrow "scared stiff" in his bush. The world is in chaos ("Gunfire licks the heavens,/ Shells pit the earth"), and the sparrow wants to escape to "a jeweled palace in Elfland's hills." The roc replies angrily...
...custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." James's obsessive abhorrence of smoking is more than matched today by members of militant groups who, to protect their lungs and nostrils, seem determined to restrict the consumption of tobacco to consenting adults behind closed doors...
Part of the travel surely is necessary. A President does need to see his nation, does need to confront the world's other authorities eyeball to eyeball. But does he have to turn the White House into a kind of pit stop...