Word: pit
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...brisk tone of Caley's journal offers little praise for his surroundings. The names he bestows along the way - the Devil's Wilderness, Dismal Dingle (a valley "like a coal-pit"), Dark Valley - hint at his impressions. When his men spotted two crows, they joked that the birds must be lost, "or else they would never stop in such a place as this." Climbing in the heat through one windless gully after another, pushing through prickly scrub amid leeches, flies and furious ants, sweaty and smeared with charcoal from burned trees, it's understandable why he spent little time...
Just which forces take hold--the optimistic or the pessimistic--will start to emerge in the weeks ahead. But already the prospects pit hope against harsh reality...
Fitzpatrick has gone from being a high school senior without a single I-A offer to a reportedly fourth-round—or higher—draft prospect, with pit-stops in the Harvard record books in between...
...pit selling drugs now deemed “entrepreneurial” and recruited...
...Square’s pit of consumption can be difficult to resist. Elizabeth J. Heymann ’06 spends most of her money on big purchases like plane tickets to visit her boyfriend but she admits, “What kills my budget are runs to Starbucks and impulse buys at Aldo.” The latte factor can be significant for Harvard’s fatigued students—coffee is more than caffeine; it’s a warm, satisfying drink with a bonus jolt. “Last year I went [to Starbucks] on average five...