Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least mark found its place in a (to us) bewildering set of classifications, each with a name: lutestring stroke, olive (pit) stroke, spring-silkworm-spitting-silk stroke; hanging-creeper dots, rat-foot dots, and some 21 kinds of ts'un or "texture wrinkle," including something called the tan-wo-ts'un or "pellet (as dropped into mud) whirlpool (eddies) texture." If this sounds pedantic, it should be seen in context: the Chinese belief that any stroke (like any character) was a unit of meaning, virtually a work of art; and that the picture could be as much...
...continue rewarding the small group of landlords and government officials who support him. Thieu cannot survive without the massive amounts of American aid which finance his government and equip his army. But the United States is weary of war, weary of pouring money into the bottomless Vietnamese pit. Thieu must insure that the aid continues despite the stiffening American reluctance...
...estate's 6½ wooded acres border on a private lake (stocked, of course with trout and bass), and the property includes a swimming pool and a barbecue pit big enough to broil a hippo. Future owners have access to the 55-horse stable, the 20 miles of bridle paths, trap-and skeet-shooting facilities of Smoke Rise-a private, walled and guarded community for the well-to-do located some 25 miles from Manhattan...
Andy sells a lot of his "special recipe" barbecue in these restaurants. What his cooks are imitating is the barbecue they still sell out in the country at old converted gas stations with a little shed in back where they cook the pork in a pit, and a gravelled parking lot full of jacked-up Chevelles and the irresistible odor of the cooking. Inside the place, a couple of country boys beside the counter or the beer cooler are flirting with the waitresses who make the plates up from barbecue, potato salad, slaw, and hush-puppies, and put the take...
...Open-pit mining methods, like those used to get copper in Butte, Mont., may also be tested, probably at one of the Colorado tracts. Great earth-moving machines would first peel back the sagebrush and grass over thousands of acres, next remove billions of tons of earth and rock, and finally gouge out the oil-shale beds 100 ft. to 850 ft. below the surface. The other technique, to be tried at the remaining leaseholds, will be to deep-mine with conventional pillar-and-room tunneling, as is done with coal-but on a gargantuan scale. More than...