Word: pit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...milking pit, Mike Brentz, a burly offshore oil worker, lifts a snake from a garbage can and places it on a small center table. Carefully he flattens and immobilizes its head with a hook and picks it up just behind the jaw. He sticks the tail between his legs to keep it from coiling free and hangs the snake's fangs over a glass beaker. When he squeezes, a teaspoon of venom drips out. Then he walks around the pit giving spectators a close-up of the snake's satiny pink mouth, its curved fangs, black tongue. When Kelly Head...
...harshest blow for the Crimson squad came when pole vaulter Mike Short missed the vaulting pit and fell to the ground, fracturing his left elbow...
...surface, I don't know what it is about, but in the pit of my stomach I do know what this is about," Hunt said of the play, in which she stars as Rose Hudd, an elderly shut-in whose husband will not speak to her. "It's a very strange piece...
Britain's political lineup will now pit the newly created Social and Liberal Democrats and Owen's breakaway party against the leftist Laborites and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. Though the new parties hope to weaken the Conservatives' mandate, they could have precisely the opposite effect. By dividing an already weak opposition even further, they just might give Maggie Thatcher's Tories a real shot at governing England for the rest of the century...
...Times-Mirror Gallup poll conducted Wednesday showed that Rather's favorable rating among viewers -- already lower than that of either of his two network rivals -- dropped to 66%, from 73% last fall. Many journalists too criticized Rather for losing his cool during the session. Even Sam Donaldson, the pit bull of network correspondents, contended that Rather went...