Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monday through Thursday, Coach Norm Shepard's boys go down into the "blood-pit" to practice with Lloyd Jordan's varsity players, giving them a prevue of the offense they'll be bucking on Saturday. But, Shepard said, "We battle the varsity every day and when it comes time for our game, we're kind of battered...
...stones was of more than ordinary interest to me. Two years ago, my wife and I visited Grime's Graves at Weeting in Norfolk and were taken by the British Ministry of Works' custodian, by means of a cat ladder, to the bottom of one of the pits. This pit, one of more than 300, is approximately 30 feet deep, and at the bottom, galleries radiate in all directions. These galleries, mined by Neolithic man in his search for flints, are only a few feet high and can be entered only by crawling on one's belly...
Again the luck of the draw worked to pit the Australians and Americans against teammates. Sedgman whipped Rose in straight sets; Mulloy outfought and outthought Richardson, also in straight sets, to go on to the final...
...rounds last week in the land of Goethe and Krupp told of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany, at prayer in his chapel. From the vaults below, he heard a German voice groaning: "Adenauer, Adenauer, save me." The Chancellor crossed himself and dug downwards towards the voice. In a pit strewn with ruins he found Germania crucified, and stooped to draw out the nails clamping his nation's feet to a cross made by the Allies. As the nails came loose, Germania sprang up, and with a mighty kick booted Adenauer out of the chapel...
...rite of Hindu holy men: walking barefoot over a bed of glowing coals. To the Rev. Eric Robinson, a British Methodist missionary, it was the opportunity he had long been waiting for. Pulling off his shoes and socks, he stepped on the coals, walked the length of the burning pit himself. The doctor's verdict: severe burns on the feet, which confined Missionary Robinson to his bed for a week...