Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shadrick and his buddies were a bazooka squad in a graveyard near the town of Sojong, close to the advancing North Korean Reds. Kenny aimed a bazooka rocket at an enemy tank, counted three while the rocket lobbed toward the target, then stuck his head & shoulders above the gun pit to watch. The tank's machine gun chattered and Kenny Shadrick tumbled backward, a bullet through his right arm, another through his chest...
...fortnight ago, the cotton pit in the antiquated bourse on Alexandria's Mohammed Aly Square exploded with the news that the two pashas owned or controlled every bale of Ashmouni cotton in Egypt. Ashmouni rocketed to $80.36 a hundredweight, nearly double its price five months ago. When frantic speculators who had sold Ashmouni short tried to make delivery with other grades of cotton, the pashas appealed to the Egyptian cabinet. On their plea that "foreigners" were trying to cheat them, the cabinet passed a retroactive law banning delivery of substitute grades...
Rain & Records. At the end of 105 laps (of a scheduled 200) Parsons drew up to his pit, got refueled and had two right tires changed in 90 seconds, and was off again. It cost him the lead, first to Rose, then to 1949 Indianapolis Winner Bill Holland in his Blue Crown Special. But each in turn had pit stops to make too, and by the 115th lap Johnnie Parsons was back in front again. Before the race Johnnie had asked his pit crew to watch the sky for signs of rain, give him the high sign (two vertical arrows...
...hauled tight. He groaned with pain. Fifteen minutes, a half hour, three-quarters of an hour passed before his rescuers freed his leg. Then, after 27½ hours, he sagged limply. "Pa!" his son called. "Pop!" There was no answer. The mud-stained, exhausted doctor climbed down into the pit, came up slowly with his face lined and sad. Dominick was dead...
...Cold Water. This year, a million and a quarter pilgrims went to Hardwar during the festival that ended last week. Between baths the Hindus could choose among two movie theaters, a circus and three sideshows, including "The Spider Woman," and "The Death Ride" by a motorcyclist in a deep pit...