Word: pit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Boston Garden Friday and Saturday night the ECAC playoffs will be concluded. On Friday night the doubleheader will pit Brown against B.C. and Providence versus B.U. And on Saturday the finals will see the two finalists playing each other in the final game of the ECAC season. Two weeks from this weekend the two finalists will see action in the NCAA tournament at Brown...
...White House officials began calling coal companies, suggesting that the bargaining might be declared to be at an "impasse"?a technical term that would serve to dissolve the national contract talks and pit individual companies against union locals. The Administration also began to encourage executives in other industries to call their coal-company peers, urging settlement. Finally the Governors of afflicted states joined the cam paign, and mine owners complained that none-too-subtle threats were coming from state regulatory officials. Among them: that holdouts might face sudden delays in obtaining permits for strip mining and other operations...
...then whitewashed Leonid Smuckler, 5-0, in his last bout, clinching Harvard's overall victory by diving for a low touch in the pit of Smucker's stomach...
...have to be somewhat flexible, but unless we know how many applicants there are, we don't really know how to divide up the money," she said, adding, "We have never run out of money yet, but students think it is a bottomless pit...
McNulty and Murphy came back from the mile to turn in a respectable three-four finish in the 1000, but it was at the pole vault pit that the master performance of the day was taking place...