Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruins led, 2-0, early in the second period, but Chicago rallied to tie the game on goals by Pit Martin and Stan Mikita. Wayne Cashman then began the Boston comeback by converting a Bobby Orr rebound in the third period Subsequent goals by Glenn Sheppard. Terry O'Reilly and Dave Forbes completed the Bruin outburst...
Died. Henry Pitney ("Pit") Van Dusen, 77, venerable Protestant theologian and president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary from 1945 to 1963; of heart disease; in Belle Meade, N.J. Van Dusen combined a profound faith with skepticism over excessive dogmatism and clerical parochialism. His ordination was held up for two years while Presbyterian leaders agonized over his right to question the literal biblical rendition of the Virgin birth. During Van Dusen's tenure as president, Union's enrollment doubled and such studies as psychiatry and religious drama joined the curriculum. A prime organizer of the World Council...
...while Stones complained about the crouch, Embree could have griped about his run. Both runners need a lot of room for their approaches, and the officials angled the position of the pit to the right to accomodate the high stepping Stones. This in turn forced Embree to shorten his run from his usual ten steps down to eight. But the shortened run and the so-called poor footing that Stones also complained of, did not stop Embree from attaining what is now his second best mark of the season...
Americans out of work could reach the 12,830,000 unemployed at the pit of the Great Depression...
...from the start: while one or more of the actors spin off their impromptu concatenations of wit through either a song or some kind of personal encounter (in Confucianist, "Sun Yat Moon," might lecture on vices to some Process people in the Square), their colleagues are "in the pit" furiously scribbling down rhymed verse, puns, or plotty narratives for the upcoming scene. The room became a jack-in-the-box of nervous energy ready to explode on stage and once in desperation I was hastily asked to help supply some puns or a story line for autobiographical song--this time...