Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in 20 years. For one thing, Australia is now without its famed batsman, the retired Sir Don Bradman. And against Australia's great Bowler Ray Lindwall, who can take his 20-yd. running start and fling the ball at close to 90 m.p.h.. England could pit some formidable batsmen of its own. Among them: Captain Len Hutton, who holds the record for runs scored in a test match (364), and Denis Compton, who seems back in his best form this year. These were England's mainstays; all England needed was a little help...
...high jumping pit, Texas' towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Olympic Champion Walter ("Buddy") Davis, 22, sternly eyed a bar set at 6 ft. 11 ½ in.-half an inch above the world record. Twice he rushed the bar with seven-league strides, then floated his 210 Ibs. upward with unbelievable buoyancy. But each time the bar quivered, then fell. On his third and last try, Davis sailed over. The bar quivered, stayed put. For an instant he sprawled in the pit, then bounded back to his feet and flung sawdust for joy. The crowd pressed in while...
Martha's basement garage was made over into The Snake Pit, Washingtonese for the dark and cozy Mayflower Hotel cocktail lounge,* where lobbyists and politicians meet when the sun gets low. An eight-piece orchestra was hired, and a seven-foot-high fence was built (at a cost of $1,000) to bring order into the lives of six uniformed District of Columbia cops and four private eyes flown down from New York to keep out the uninvited. (Martha likes the fence and thinks she will keep it as a permanent addition to the property...
Smallpox leaves no marks on the bones of its victims, but the diggers found one grisly relic of the pestilence. A frontier tale has it that the plague-stricken Indians tossed their dead into food storage pits. The diggers excavated such a pit and found jumbled skeletons...
Under the Le Mans rules, each car must carry its own spare parts, tools, tires. Pit stops for fuel, oil. water and brake fluid are allowed no oftener than every 28 laps. Under those stringent limitations, the three Italian Alfa Romeo entries were forced out within the first twelve hours...