Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LEVERETT HOUSE DINING HALL, The Pit and the Pendulum...
Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above-But to the girdle do the gods inherit Beneath is all the fiends 'There 'shell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench consumption; fie, fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. -King Lear...
...East Room was like a bear pit with over 200 newsmen and women shrieking and roaring for attention, jostling each other as they leaped up and down signaling frantically for the President's attention, ignoring the previous questions and the incomplete answers to press their own divergent points...
...prehistoric North Americans who lived in the area. Contrary to the accepted view, Struever says, these Stone Age people apparently led a rather idyllic life. Food was plentiful in the lush valley, allowing them to feast on nuts and wild grains, ducks, mollusks and fish. One cooking pit, for example, contained some 22,000 fish bones of all sizes, down to skeletons of 1-in.-long minnows; apparently they were all cooked together in a giant prehistoric bouillabaisse...
...Birmingham, England, this summer, Jennifer Williams, a pretty 13-year-old West Indian, was walking home from school when she was attacked by two white youths who hurled her into a gravel pit pool. Shouting, "You blacks can't come down here," the boys watched as Jennifer drowned. Later that same week, Ken Harvey, a 41-year-old white schoolteacher, and his family of 12 were burned out of their home in London's predominantly black area of Brixton by a gang of 20 black kids who had vowed "to get whitey...