Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island's north coast the city of Matanzas got a hard jolting. But the tidal wave that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...
Well Professor Wild moved in. And what did he find? No garbage disposal pit. What does he do with his waste? Well, he saves it all up and when his garbage cans are all full he piles it in his car and taxies it into the Cambridge incinerator...
When he rented a cottage in the hinterland for the summer, Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of Government, did so with the idea that his landlord was going to dig a garbage disposal pit on the grounds...
Every morning at 9:30, a big bell rings in the pit room of Chicago's Board of Trade. It sends traders swarming over the floor, starts the furious finger signaling which means "buy" and "sell" in the world's greatest grain exchange. But one day last week the big bell did not ring at 9:30; for the first time in 13 years,* grain trading stopped in Chicago...
...Calais. "My earliest memory is of a mining accident, of plain white wooden coffins placed in neat rows on the floor of the shed. I remember men, women & children running in all directions, colliding, pushing, returning to where they started, and sweating gendarmes guarding the pit gates against the shrieking, weeping, hysterical crowd which knew that hundreds of its menfolk were condemned to slow death, entombed beneath the earth...