Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twisted heaps. A crowded Chinese restaurant across the street collapsed in smoke and flames, its floor strewn with still bodies and flopping forms of the wounded. Dozens of pedestrians in a nearby shopping district were flattened by the blast. Where the car had been, there was only a smoking pit, two feet deep. Three charred bodies lay near by, and bits of pulverized flesh littered the street...
...calls the "ordinary way of life." What the ordinary way of life means for Schulz is a 28-acre estate in Sebastopol, north of San Francisco, where he and Joyce and their five children live in uncommon luxury. Artificial waterfall, tennis court, riding ring, park, baseball diamond, barbecue pit, pool, all testify to Sparky's determination to give his children everything he lacked as a boy. Keeping the family company are five cats, four horses, three dogs, two turtles and a mouse. In true Peanuts fashion, the dogs, says Joyce, are "watchdogs in the sense that a burglar might...
...Floats. At the halfway point, Hall was already five laps ahead of his nearest pursuer, a Ferrari-and still pouring it on. "We're afraid of rain," he wryly explained during a pit stop. "This is a light car with big tires, and it floats when it hits a puddle." The rains came, so heavily that waves of water washed up the Chaparral's nose into the cockpit. Hall had to cut his speed to 10 m.p.h. But the Ferrari was having trouble too, gave up with four hours to go. The rain stopped, and the race...
...score is a modern patchwork, ranging from bouncy rural rhythms to streaks of dissonance, used most effectively in underlining Lizzie's mounting anxiety. But for the most part, it is unobtrusive by design. Says Beeson: "The whole focus is on the stage, not the pit...
This year's team is coached and captained by Gage McAfee. The president of the club is Pit Marshall. One of its more distinguished alumni is Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). He participated in the spring seasons, foregoing the fall schedule for football...