Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convicted Alameda's mayor for bribery and theft of public funds. None of his convictions was ever reversed on appeal, but none of them gave him particular pleasure. Said he: "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach...
Studio One did not flinch at an unhappy ending. Smith groveled in a prison pit, was tortured into admitting that two and two make five, came screaming out of a chamber of hungry rats, and confirmed his fealty to Big Brother in an emotionless, post-brainwashing meeting with Julia. It was a production that could easily have gone embarrassingly grotesque at one false move, but maturity of view and painstaking execution (stagehands were fitted with felt shoe pads to keep out distracting noises) combined to make the first tele-version of Nineteen Eighty-Four a major TV achievement...
...Chicago's noisy wheat pit last week, nervous traders began a deluge of selling in wheat futures. As U.S. farmers got ready to vote on wheat marketing quotas, the traders were hedging the possibility that controls would be voted down, thus automatically cutting Government price supports for wheat nearly in half. In the hectic trading, September futures fell to $1.75 a bu., the lowest price in six years and 60? below the price a year ago. The fears about the voting were unjustified (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, and September futures soon rebounded to $1.88 as flour mills made big buys...
Between the lines of these personal dilemmas, Author Williams sketches in the snake-pit struggles of Copperheads, scalawags and carpetbaggers, the cancerous ministry of fear between black and white that gradually chokes all love. As gory as any 30-page stretch in recent literature is the book's account of the slaying of some 50 Negroes in the Mechanics Institute massacre...
...there is the story of Private Maggio, Prew's friend, who is beaten to death in the "stockade" by Fatso, the brutal captain of the guard, and of Prew's tragic revenge. Dec. 7, 1941, for all its horror, breaks like a pest bomb over this roach pit of human misery...