Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Controller Alan Cranston to take over Engle's candidacy. Unruh wanted anyone Brown did not want. First, he persuaded State Attorney General Stanley Mosk to run in the Democratic primary. But Brown, in his turn, persuaded Mosk to withdraw. Big Daddy looked around for another candidate to pit against Cranston. He picked Pierre...
...ITALIAN GIRL, by Iris Murdoch. Another unsteady Murdoch heroine walks the thin line between old rules and new temptations. She wavers, of course, to give the author another opportunity to pit human emotions against moral tradition...
...cinema masterpiece. Deep, original, strange, it propounds the parable of a young teacher (Eiji Okada again) who takes a field trip to an isolated duneland, misses the last train, accepts an invitation from the village elders to sleep in a shack at the bottom of a sand pit. In the morning he finds the ladder drawn up and no way out of the pit. "I'm sorry," says the young woman (Kyoko Kishada), who lives alone in the sand pit. "You cannot leave." Again and again he tries, again and again he fails. Slowly, through long years of suffering...
...summer, Boston practiced with a sponge dangling from a crossbar, 9 ft. above the broad-jump pit. The idea was to aim for it with his head-on the theory that the higher he jumped the farther he would go-and last week he nearly jumped out of sight. In the final U.S. Olympic trials at Los Angeles, Boston bounded 27 ft. 101 in. on his very first try-a full 7 in. past the world mark held by Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan. But the wind gauge registered 5 m.p.h. (maximum allowable: 4.4 m.p.h.), and the new record...
...moves again, and this time an eye peers out from under it. "Let's go!" a voice cries hoarsely, and in rapid succession three men (Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Gilles Segal) leap out of the pit, run crouching to a door, dart stealthily across a large dim room and go leaping up a narrow stair within the walls. Once on the roof, they make a risky traverse and arrive, with twilight coming on, at the brink of a sheer parapet interrupted here and there with iron-barred apertures...