Word: pit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cycle got its most vigorous workout during the whirlwind introduction of Sarah Palin. John McCain's Veep passed from surprise (who is this woman?) to novelty (beauty queen who shoots moose) to scandal (her daughter's pregnant) to obituary (will McCain drop her?) to resurrection (she's a pit bull with lipstick) to skepticism (but can she appeal beyond the base?) at the speed of a snowmobile...
...Ladies and gentlemen, this is Carl Phillips again, out at the Wilmuth farm, Grovers Mill, New Jersey...I hardly know where to begin...I guess that's the thing buried in front of me, half buried in its vast pit...
...white horse, wearing gold shorts, covered in red glitter body paint, and hanging from a noose.Yeah, their live shows are a bit extravagant, but that seems to be the point, a continuation of their over-the-top music. And after turning Roseland Ballroom into a big sexually ambiguous mosh pit just over a week ago and turning out a pretty respectable cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” accompanied by MGMT’s Andrew Van Wyngarden (with whom Barnes is now collaborating on a side project), Of Montreal look...
...associations from the poetry. However, in poems like “The Clay Army,” he doesn’t add anything beyond the basic historical facts one could find in a textbook: “Some warriors are sculpted; in unbroken taijiquan stances. In the third pit, / royal commanders huddle with scrimmages / in broken heads...
...rise of the old tongue has some worried about a potentially new conflict: that the increasing number of gaelscoileanna will pit Ireland's constitutional vow to preserve its "native" language against the obligation as a modern country to integrate its increasing immigrant population. While Walsh and hundreds of thousands of other Irish were making their way home, other, newer migration paths were being cut from China, Nigeria, Poland and many other countries. Between the late 1980s and today, the percentage of foreign-born residents in Ireland grew from around 1% to almost 12%. "People choose gaelscoileanna for all kinds...