Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-aircraft station in the south of England the siren murdered sleep. Eight girls of an ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) crew slapped on tin hats, raced for the gun pit. Jerry was upstairs. The detectors had him pegged...
...killing 44. Two grenades wrapped in newspapers were hurled into the Nazis' Paris headquarters. In a Rennes theater this week, when Jacques Doriot, rabid collaborationist and good Laval friend, got up to address a meeting, someone in the balcony threw a bomb which exploded harmlessly in the orchestra pit...
Other engagements this afternoon pit the '45 lacrosse squad against Tufts Freshmen on the Business School field, and Coach Dick Dorson's Yardling tennis team against Andover at 3 o'clock on the Divinity School courts, in its first match of the season...
Like the Eugen, the 26,000-ton battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, known to Britons as S & G, had been continuously plastered in French ports. With the badgered Eugen, they had finally come out of their pit, had dashed through England's own Channel in February, dealing worse wounds to British pride than the damage they took themselves. Now the Gneisenau lay in Kiel. She seemed to have been hurt, as she had also seemed at Brest. But now she was in German home waters. So was the Scharnhorst...
Soprano Djanel's Carmen was backed up as expertly as a debutante could wish: in the pit was Guest Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who has been pulling opera performances together for 40 years. (He has been known to conduct from memory with no more preparation than a last-minute query: "What's the opera to night...