Word: pit
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...sauce-slathered mutton served up from the kitchen, they saw a buffet of uncooked meats and vegetables. Instead of knives and forks, they were given large scissors, chopsticks and metal tongs. No candle flickered at their table, but a bucket of fiery wood charcoal hissed in the tabletop grill pit. Chung Kiwha served barbecue, all right--cook-it-yourself Korean barbecue. "I didn't realize there were restaurants like this," marveled Spangler to her friends, who hail from Knoxville, Tenn., "and I worked in restaurants for 20 years...
...floors of seating, which have 890 seats in total, almost wrap around the stage, expanding outward from a moat-like pit that encircles the thrust. At one point, this cavity did contain water (it was a river in a production of Dead End), but now it alternates between simply being added to the stage and concealing an orchestra...
...floors of seating, which have 890 seats in total, almost wrap around the stage, expanding outward from a moat-like pit that encircles the thrust. At one point, this cavity did contain water (it was a river in a production of Dead End), but now it alternates between simply being added to the stage and concealing an orchestra...
Suddenly, I was playing field hockey on sprinkler-fed fields tended by legions of gardeners. I went to sleepovers in mansions, and attended sweet-sixteen parties that would have given Caligula a run for his money. Instead of getting chased around the schoolyard by pit bulls, I spent my afternoons at meetings for the various clubs I’d joined, or reading quietly beside one of the stained-glass windows. I graduated in a white gown, holding a basket of red roses...
...dedication of Yu Zhengyang, a sanitation worker from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. In the winter of 1997, says Yu, his wife, Zhou Hongxia, disappeared after being summoned to a provincial police station in Xicheng. A few months later, Yu recounts, her body was found in a latrine pit just 15 m from the police headquarters. The police autopsy report ruled her death a suicide, but Yu says that doesn't explain why her body was covered in bruises and lacerations. Yu was particularly alarmed when police repeatedly visited his home, urging him to hand over the battered corpse...