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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe that's how it should be: pit-bull women, right-wing women, feminist women -- all kinds of women in all their glorious diversity. Nothing in our genes, after all, says we have to be kinder, gentler and more committed to family leave. But with women's representation in national politics still barely above presuffrage levels, it was only natural that most of the new female candidates would define themselves as women on a mission. Trailblazing is not a job for the uncommitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Women Have to Celebrate? | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...that he's like nearly everyone else in public life. The "issues" in the Republican campaign are largely Hard Copy topics like adultery, dope smoking, draft dodging and politically correct itineraries for student vacations. On The McLaughlin Group, the Studs of weekend round-table shows, pundits pretend to be pit bulls. On the late-night talk shows opposite Limbaugh's, comedians pause in their mocking of Bush and Quayle to get serious for just a moment, folks, and put in a plug for Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Provocateur Or BIG BLOWHARD? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...course, the real fun at any grunge show is the mosh pit. Halfway through "Uncle Anesthesia," one fan forgot the Golden Rule of Stage Diving and jumped for a less-populated area. The sound of his head meeting the ground was audible over the music, but he jumped right back up, empowered by the music and the scene. To what higher praise could the Screaming Trees aspire...

Author: By Bryan Lavietes, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Paradise Crowd Looks for Oblivion With the Trees | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...Cambridge high school student was released on $2000 bail Monday morning on charges related to a stabbing last weekend in the Harvard Square "pit...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Youth Released on Bail in Stabbing Case | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

Dumping millions more of American tax dollars into the entrenched, bureaucratic money-pit that is the failing American public school would be to reward the very system that has failed us. In Chicago, 46 percent of the children of public school teachers and administrators attend private schools. The people who know the public school system best have no faith in its merit...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Even the Russians Do It | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

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