Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabia's strike-and-run stratagem with camel raiders. The British kept a lookout for an overland thrust southeast across the ancient caravan trails to Cairo or Khartoum. Having once accomplished the impossible, in forced marches and road building in Ethiopia, it was not inconceivable that Italy might pit her legions against both nature and the British, in a gamble to sever the British Empire's jugular...
Frank Conley did not surrender. Twenty-four hours after his leap on Troy Wade he was found in a pit on the Ouachita River levee, still holding his shotgun, 50 yards from the spot where the posseman had been killed. A bullet through the throat had ended his flight...
...late Novelist D. H. Lawrence's heroine, Lady Chatterly, discovered in the Midlands: "This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts. . . . There was something in their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, and the thresh-thresh of their hobnailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible and a bit mysterious." But if people are strong, factories are still vulnerable to high explosive...
...snooty Easterners that Chicago was no longer a frontier town, the American Derby offered an inaugural purse of $10,000, more than double what the older, tonier Kentucky Derby offered. By 1893, its purse was $50,000, more than ten times Kentucky's. But, when panic hit its Pit, Chicago gave no thought to thoroughbreds, abandoned its Derby...
Died. John George Howard, 87, who 41 years ago helped Prisoner of War Winston Churchill escape from his captors, the Boers; at Johannesburg. He hid Churchill, who had a ?25 reward on his head, in a mine pit for three days, later concealed him among bales of wool, arranged for his transportation to friendly Portuguese territory...