Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dynamo of salvation and yet destruction to those who contact me inharmoniously . . . I have cursed them down to the bottomless pit on earth . . . I curse them without mercy. I curse them without pity. I curse without compassion or any sympatheticness . . . Aren't you glad...
Oakley explained that the basis of calling the skull a fraud was the discovery that the ape-like "Piltdown" jaw is actually that of a modern ape which had been treated with a chemical to make it appear a "fossil." When found in a Piltdown, England, gravel pit in 1911, the shape of the jaw led scientists to call it at least 100,000 and possibly 600,000 years old. The cranium itself is a genuine fossil, but the scientists now say it is only 50,000 years...
...Pit of Snakes." When the Indians first went to Korea, they were sure that the U.N. was holding the anti-Communist P.W.s under duress, that the U.N.-not the Communists-was menacing the peace. They told the P.W.s at once that they would protect the P.W.s' "right to be repatriated" (not the right to non-repatriation). When the first explanations bogged down, Indian newspapers automatically blamed the U.N. "The U.N. command has actually obstructed the neutrals' work," said the National Herald of Lucknow, which is run by one of Nehru's favorite editors. "The U.N. side...
...dealing: they were grim when the Communists put the P.W.s through hour-long inquisitions, and were ready to screen the P.W.s themselves rather than tolerate any more of such violence. "It is inhuman!" snapped India's Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya. "We have placed our foot into a pit of snakes," said one of his officers...
...injured Lowell squad, without the services of quarterback Peter Hearst, will pit its single wing against a coming Winthrop eleven. The Bellboys have had trouble getting men to show up regularly at practice. On the other hand, the Puritans have had fairly regular attendance and expect to better their eighth place standing last season...