Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...square meal is a public school hot lunch-if they have the shoes to get to school. The most fortunate adults work for a third of their old wages in "dog holes"-dangerous coal mines dug by anybody who can scrape up enough cash to finance a pit...
...Exit. The idea of hell has gradually been going to hell. In the ancient Hebrew tradition it was a bottomless pit where "the fire is sixty times as hot as the fire of this earth." To St. Thomas it was a sort of overheated sideshow that the saints in heaven were permitted to watch in order to "enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly." To the poet Shelley it was "a city much like London." To Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose most celebrated theatrical tract can now be seen in a free cinemadaptation, hell is just...
...Burlesque has succeeded in reviving for mixed company some of the stag-night atmosphere in all its raunchy glory. It is like old times. Candy butchers, though a little self-consciously, hawk their dubious wares up the aisles during intermission, the world's worst orchestra is in the pit, the scenery is ghastly, the lighting garish, and the choreography might have been devised by a dancing bear. During the "Hello. Everybody" number, one of the magpie-voiced chorines flounces down to the footlights and squeals classically, "We will shimmy and we will shake, but please don't think...
...Pit Marshall, an inexperienced sophomore back, scored the winning try in a sudden death fourth overtime with a 60-yard, broken field run. The ruggers had tied New York in the last second of regulation play at 5-5, when Dick Carey, who scored the winning points against Amherst on Saturday, booted a nearly impossible conversion from the touch line. Jerry Pieh, second row forward, had sored the Crimson try just before time...
...Game no longer decides the national championship, as it did for many years. Nor does the Harvard-Yale contest now pit the country's greatest players against each other in a head-to-head competition, as was the case for three fabulous seasons between 1929 and 1931. In those last glorious days of football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sports fan in the land...