Word: pit
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...tattered American flag recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. The production had surprising lulls, though, such as the boring balloon heads who followed the fake cows pulled by waltzers in Holsteinesque spotted costumes on the white-floored performance ring, which the choregraphers called a mosh pit (piazzetta). Actually, according to the Opening? Ceremonies Media Guide, a fat 68 pages in both English and Italian, those were not technically "balloon heads." They were 50 snow women, "symbolizing winter snowflakes." So there...
...fact, I will take them a step further. I hereby extend a formal offer to the Sox skipper.Mr. Guillen, you are invited to Cambridge, Mass.Upon arrival, you will be subsequently “[dropped] in the middle of Harvard”—which I suppose means The Pit, or the circle of tourists in front of the John Harvard statue—to fend for yourself.You will have nothing at your disposal. No cell phone, no bat, no glove, no pen, no paper, no World Series ring. But you will find a list of Harvard-centric challenges which...
...prohibitively raucous canine nation. His public gestures were tasteful. He refused to sit in Sharon's seat at the first Cabinet meeting or use Sharon's office. He gave no interviews, a real departure for a politician who had served as the Prime Minister's talk-radio pit bull. He traded his famously dreadful orange ties for blue and black stripes. He was not seen smoking one of his beloved cigars. He looked very much the leader...
...November 2004, and within hours a team from the Ministry of Agriculture had descended upon the tiny village of Chart Charoen in northeast Thailand. Dressed in spacesuit-style protective gear, team members hunted out every bird in the village, slaughtered them all and buried the carcasses in a huge pit. That scene has been repeated countless times throughout Southeast Asia, where bird flu has become entrenched, but in Chart Charoen there was a critical difference. Instead of protesting the destruction of their flocks or hiding their poultry, as owners often do in other bird-flu areas, the villagers were quick...
...entry of an independent in the form of former GOP Congressman and DeLay supporter Steve Stockman, a far-right conservative defeated after a single term by Lampson. Stockman told the conservative Human Events magazine this week that by running as an independent he would attack Lampson "like a pit bull" and criticize Lampson's "ethical lapses.... that's something Tom can't do under the present circumstances...