Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention, players jockey for state votes by offering ambassadorships, Cabinet posts or even money to rivals, then ballot to select a candidate. Next comes the election and finally, for advanced players, there are a whole new set of rules that allow them to toy with hypothetical scenarios that can pit Abraham Lincoln, for instance, against George Wallace. Another one: what if Nixon were to decline renomination and the Republicans, with a dark-horse candidate, had to enter the campaign against a Democratic party united behind Teddy Kennedy...
Between Big Tex and the livestock beauty parades lies the heart of every fair: the midway. Texan or otherwise, breathes there a man with soul so dead that he did not once thrill to the gut-wrenching twists and turns of the Caterpillar and the Black Widow? Or pit his adolescent's rolled-steel stomach against the depredations of Corny Dogs and Bar-B-Q mystery meat burgers and loomfuls of pink cotton candy? Even those barbaric relics of carnival days, the sideshow freaks, are still present. Hear the saw-throated barker cry of the Headless Body Beautiful: "Yessir...
Cornell has several valuable drawing cards for promising jocks. There is the School of Agriculture, where the Canadian hockey players can feel at home, and Lynah Rink, a snake pit where the goal judges are not known for their impartiality. There are over fifty fraternities (more than any other Ivy school) for the jocks to play in. And there is the School of Hotel Administration, which brought Ed Marinaro to Cornell...
...period," complained Kennecott President Frank Milliken, whose firm has been a particularly good corporate citizen in Chile. Said Anaconda President John Place: "Allende's accounting theory is nothing more than a thin pretext for confiscation. He's now contrived to grab the world's biggest open-pit copper mine [Anaconda's Chuquicamata], plus a second major underground mine, and not pay a dime...
...agree on what they will talk about when they convene again in Washington on Saturday. The impasse deepened the danger that President Nixon's monetary initiatives will produce not the much needed overhaul of the world financial system that he aimed at, but a trade war that will pit the U.S. against much of the rest of the world...