Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When they no longer need me, they will spit me out like a cherry pit," Prince Norodom Sihanouk once said of Cambodia's new Khmer Rouge rulers. He had good reason for his apprehension. As head of state during the 1960s, he had exiled, jailed or executed many of the Khmer rebels. But last week the past was officially forgotten-at least temporarily. After more than five years of exile in China, Sihanouk and his wife, Princess Monique, made a triumphal return to Phnom-Penh. Traveling from Peking with the royal family was Deputy Premier Khieu Samphan...
...that once lined "Venus Alley" have disappeared. But the ugliness remains. In the years following World War II, Butte had a raw look because it was a boom town. Today it is shabby because it is dying. For the past two decades, the Anaconda Company's immense Berkeley pit has been slowly nibbling away one section of the hilltop city after another. Now the pit, a gaping, terraced ulcer 7,200 ft. long, a mile wide and 1,500 ft. deep, has begun to eat into the town's business district. By 1985, say some resigned residents, Butte...
Lone Reporter. Schorr's manner seems abrasive. The glasses are thick, the brow is wrinkled, the voice is from a gravel pit. Hustler Schorr concedes: "I guess I'm aggressive, but I don't consider myself abrasive. I'm direct." When he is not on the prowl, he can be amiable and modest. But he has seldom been off the prowl. Schorr started quietly enough as a print reporter in 1934-seven years for minor wire agencies and five years freelancing. Later he worked for CBS abroad, mainly in Central Europe, and did not reach Washington...
Thomas Crooks had just edged into a pew, carefully placed a small brown paper bag on the seat beside him, and opened his hymn book to the morning's responsive reading. "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit." Crooks mumbled along with the dozen other people in the dark, cool chapel, "out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings...
...graduated from Harvard, gaining a bona fide Ivy League background--but at the age of 31. And the particular patch of miry clay from which the Lord drew Crooks--a poor Appalachian coal-mining town in western Pennsylvania--seems, years later, more and more lovely, not the horrible pit Crooks once...