Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifth in the early stages of the race, behind Revision, and the three-way first place duel between Follmer and Javelin drivers Mark Donohue and Tony Adamowicz. Gregg moved up to second when Donohue spun out of the lead and stalled. Adamowicz broke down, and Revson made a long pit stop. Driving a smooth, steady race, Gregg never relinquished second place to his pursuers, and took over the lead briefly when teammate Follmer pitted for fuel...
...Padilla's who now lives in France, insists that the poet's "selfcriticism could have been signed in only one way: under torture." That is unproven, but one thing is beyond dispute. Padilla's evidently forced recantation only further estranged Castro from his quondam admirers. "The pit between Cuba's leaders and the non-Communist European or Latin American Left is being dug deeper," wrote Marcel Niedergang, a longtime friend and supporter of Castro, in France's Le Monde. For his part, Fidel turned his big-bore verbal artillery against the intellectuals. "So they...
...needs a $22,500 bathroom [March 29]? No wonder the protesting students, blacks and other underprivileged members of our lopsided society think the only solution to our ills is to tear everything down. I feel one of those "polished stones" at the pit of my stomach...
...Headway. Next day the Pakistan army dispatched another infantry company from Jessore to stage a counterattack on Kushtia. At Bishakali village, halfway to Kushtia, the new company fell into a booby trap set by Bangla Desh forces. Two Jeeps in the nine-vehicle army convoy plunged into a deep pit covered with bamboo and vines. Seventy-three soldiers were killed on the spot, and dozens of others were chased down and slain...
...does not know how to talk, but he certainly knows how to sing. It is true that his guitar fingering lends sudden lights and shadows to the barest melody. But there is something more in Taylor's music than that. It enters through the ears, chills in the pit of the stomach, melts and dissolves the heart...