Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class reunion dinner, the President and his classmates savored double-thick steaks-one of them specially salted, peppered, garlic-salted, cooked eleven minutes on one side and eight minutes on the other in a charcoal pit-followed by Sicilian pastry, cream-filled and dripping with lime ice. Teary-eyed, the old soldiers chorused their Alma Mater and venerated favorites like The Corps: The Corps! Bareheaded salute it, With eyes up, thanking...
...nearing the pits and roaring toward the grandstand turn when he got a stop signal from the pit crew. Neither Hawthorn nor anyone else will ever know whether the signal was late, or whether his reflexes were slow, or whether the reflexes of the following drivers were slower...
...ceremonial sendoff marked the official opening of Canada's newest major mining venture, Bethlehem Steel's open-pit operation at Marmora, Ont., which will provide jobs for some 270 residents of the industry-poor region. Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, in a speech at the ceremony, spotlighted another point of significance for Canada's fast-growing iron mining industry: "With the opening of Steep Rock in northwestern Ontario, the Quebec-Labrador mines, and this mine...
Ever since "Snake Pit" dramatized the problems of a mental institution, the public has slowly become more and more aware of the forgotten patients and the startling statistics existing in mental hospitals throughout the nation. Recently, three actions have put the problem in sharper focus: a Harvard volunteer program, a state-wide report, and a national foundation grant, each in different ways, have shown encouraging details within a generally bleak outline...
Last week Kansas scored a near miss in almost becoming the 19th. Its legislature passed a "right to work" bill, but Republican Governor Fred Hall vetoed it. Noting the efforts of some lobbyists and legislators to pit farmers against the bill, he said: "America is essentially a classless country. Those who would put one group of people against another to make it otherwise, are doing their country a great disservice." The state house of representatives voted 78-44 to override, but that was six short of the two-thirds needed...