Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Designer C. Prior Hall arrived with the water-filled mattress. He calls it the Pleasure Pit, and passed out copy advertising its virtues: "It is a friend in love with you. Beckoning you to grovel in rapturous sensual splendor" -and so on, down to the punch line: "The Pleasure Pit is like taking your bed to bed with...
...Long Barracks," half a dozen officers' houses, small hospital and tailor shop were surrounded by crumbling forts and ancient, rusting equipment. Its textbooks on warfare were outrageously out of date. Its acting superintendent, Alden ("Old Pewter") Partridge, punished refractory cadets by putting them in an 8-ft.-square pit with...
...taking Tom Chance along with him on an errand because Chance has not been appreciative enough of the Ross family's housing him in a tool shed. And, just as she expects, Chance goes ahead and kills the elder Ross. Later he tries to push Maddy herself into a pit full of rattlesnakes...
...show, small groups did, in fact, continue to rush the gates, the wall was broken in several places, and the crowd inside kept pushing forward (a girl from Englewood N.J. somehow managed to make it from the back of the field all the way up to the photographer's pit to stand beside me). Wein, who earned whatever amount of money he's making on this with a down payment on an ulcer, kept asking everybody to "keep it cool," and he was pretty much successful. At any rate, the ugly scene never happened--thank God (or somebody...
...circumference, it ranged cows and horses facing into a central core. At harvest time, wagons bearing fresh loads from the fields could enter by a separate driveway that led to the level above the stalls, then drive around the circle, distributing feed in the hayloft. A manure pit beneath the stable level permitted cow dung to fall through trapdoors and be easily carted away...