Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles below the surface. The scene: the No. 2 shaft of the Western Deep Levels gold mine in Carletonville, about 50 miles west of Johannesburg. Suddenly rioting broke out. A swelling mob of African mine workers, angered by a chronic wage and job dispute, went rampaging through the pit area, stoning white officials, looting and setting fire to buildings...
Overwhelmed by the tense, frenetic atmosphere and enormous work load in the hospital emergency room, many doctors view duty in what they call the "pit" as a form of cruel and unusual punishment; others regard it as a purgatory through which they must pass on the way to a more relaxed form of practice. But Dr. Gaius Clark, 40, of Lansing, Mich., loves every minute of it. "It is an exciting type of medicine," he says of his full-time work in the emergency room at Lansing's St. Lawrence Hospital. "You are under a great deal of stress...
...administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency holds one of the most controversial jobs in Washington. Changes in automobile engineering, new restrictions on city traffic, explorations for oil, the pollution of waterways-all this and more come to the EPA chief for a series of decisions that pit environmental interests against business balance sheets, land-use habits and even the traditional American way of life. Comments one conservationist: "In that job you're damned if you do and damned...
...pit is too deep...
...habits, when they were particularly known for wearing white. I don't object to Isabella's wearing light blue, since she is still a novice; but her habit, covered with what seem to be dark smudges, is unbelievably ugly, and suggests that she has been laboring in the grease-pit of a gas station...