Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success in the Beanpot, in addition to the strength of the Terrier squad this season, seem to pit BU as the clear favorite tonight. Ranked number-one in the country during the preseason, the Terriers convincingly shut out Harvard, 4-0, on November...
PRINCETON, N.J.--Some holes are way too deep to climb out of, and the Harvard men's swim team slipped into a cavernous one this weekend, falling behind Princeton early in the meet. In the end, the Crimson couldn't escape the Tiger pit at DeNunzio Pool in Princeton, N.J. and headed home with a 138-105 loss and little hope of an Ivy title...
...present rate, it's a bottomless pit because the regulators have usurped Congress's powers. They've paid out nearly $10 billion to $100,000- plus account holders in failed institutions. Those accounts aren't even insured. The fund can't keep taking hits like that...
...first Godfather films sketched a history of the Mafia as a cracked- mirror reflection of American industry. One hoped G3 might pit the Corleones against the bad boys of the drug trade: the old Italians vs. blacks and Hispanics, rustic chivalry vs. cutthroat capitalism. Instead, Coppola, who wrote the screenplay with Puzo, sends Michael on a side trip to Rome and Sicily...
...addressed to Operation Desert Shield, APO New York, 09848-0006. They are parcels of home shipped into a zone that is nearly as alien and inhospitable as space -- temperatures unnatural, planet sand-colored to the horizon, days blinding, nights full of stars. Home, built around the cave and fire pit, belongs to a more Teutonic, cold-weather scheme of things...