Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard soccer team will take its 1-1 Ivy League record to Hanover today and pit it against a Dartmouth team whose only claim to fame is a plastering 3-1 upset victory over highly-touted Penn...
...Bagge, director of the National Coal Association. Bagge is especially critical of the provision requiring restoration of the land to its original contour: "It precludes us from employing other reclamation techniques that could leave the land suitable for a higher social and economic use [like creating lakes in abandoned pit mines] than it was in its original state." The bill will also raise coal prices; the cost of restoring the land, about 600 per ton of coal, will be passed along to the consumer...
...employs a public relations consultant to help spread his fame-and perhaps counteract the effect of his personality. Though he can be amiable off the track, fans know him as a dour churl who snarls at well-wishers and even puts up barriers to keep spectators away from his pit. Readers of Hot Rod magazine, however, were able to see as much of Grumpy as anyone would wish. Clad in skivvies and sprawled on a bearskin rug, he posed for this month's centerfold...
...institution, a drab and dreary brick building affair, became famous when Robert Kennedy '48, then campaigning for the Senate, toured the premises in 1965 and left calling it a "snake pit." Willowbrook turned into a headline story in New York during the early part of 1972 when a local television reporter, Geraldo Rivera, did a searing expose of the inhuman conditions which prevailed dispite Kennedy's much publicized visit. The Rivera expose attracted the largest audience for a locally produced show in television history, causing some superficial and politically expedient changes to be made...
...most part Willowbrook remains the snake pit it has always been. There is one difference now, though. It is a difference which will probably have no profound effect on Willowbrook but which has a killing effect on me. Now I have a friend living and dying in that god forsaken hell hole...