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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE you were probably away, the Ethnic Catering Service made a two-day pit stop at Harvard as it slouches towards Miami to be bought...

Author: By Tony Mill, | Title: Black Caucus: New National Priorities? | 4/11/1972 | See Source »

...rough count, broke his 101st, 102nd, 103rd and 104th bones at the Michigan State Fairgrounds last week. The latest fracture of his collarbone and ribs will not, of course, deter Knievel from his scheduled motorcycle leap this week in Sacramento, Calif., where he aims to soar over a pit filled with cars, mountain lions and 100 rattlesnakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1972 | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

WHILE you were probably away, the Ethnic Catering Service made a two-day pit stop at Harvard as it slouches towards Miami to be bought...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Ethnic Catering Service Comes to Harvard | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...disclose his campaign sources, indicate a record impressive only for its deception. Add to this the way Muskie has tried to pass of the New Hampshire. I could have gotten it up..." and the Honest Ed image crumbles further. One begins to wonder whether November's election could pit Tricky Dick against Trickler Ed, or vice versa. Either way, it isn't a very appealing choice...

Author: By Michael S. Feldberg, | Title: Muskie's Politics of Deceit | 3/14/1972 | See Source »

There once was a time, about 20 years ago, when Reserve Mining's plant was considered a blessing. Northern Minnesota, its Mesabi Range depleted of rich iron ore by a half-century of open-pit mining, teetered on the brink of economic collapse. Then engineers devised a method of extracting iron from crushed taconite, a flintlike rock that contains some 25% iron. Reserve Mining, which is owned by Armco and Republic Steel, easily obtained dumping permits on the assumption that the gray torrent of taconite would sink 900 feet to the bottom of the lake's "Great Trough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Test on Taconite | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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