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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With milk moustaches and cookie crumbs falling from their smiling mouths, students broke from their studies Wednesday night to attend milk and cookie pit stops sponsored by the Undergraduate Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...Princeton meet this season will be held in New Jersey on February 7, and Bernal knows it will be a good one: "Princeton will be tough, and we will be facing them in their pit with a jam-packed crowd," he said. "If [the Tigers] win, their season is made...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Shooting for the Elusive Number Nine | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...this archaeology grad student isn't your average Indiana Jones. He's tall and thin, wears glasses, and looks like he'd be more at home in a library than in a pit full of poisonous snakes. He seems perfectly comfortable in a tie and suspenders, and it's hard to imagine him in boots and bush hat, carrying a whip...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnoookin, | Title: Dirty Hands in Foreign Lands | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

...then of course, no one intelligent would feel comfortable in a pit full of poisonous snakes. And Curt Sandburg is more of a bona fide archeaologist than Harrison Ford ever could...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnoookin, | Title: Dirty Hands in Foreign Lands | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

Among the unlucky souls without shelter were the Harvard cheerleaders, who nonetheless managed to remain peppy. At halftime, two of the male Crimson cheerleaders got the bright idea of creating a slidding pit out of the sidelines...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Singing (the Blues) in the Rain | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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