Word: pits
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...just closed the window again. Darryl Carter, whose girlfriend lives down the hall from Yates, knew about the pets too. "He just loved animals," Carter told TIME last week. "He had a book full of pictures of the animals he owned. He had, like, alligators and snakes and pit bulls...
What does a real synfuel operation look like, the kind that can change a country's energy fortunes? The answer can be found 700 miles north of Montana near a onetime frontier outpost in Alberta called Fort McMurray. At Syncrude Canada's North Mine, a huge open pit nearly two miles across and 250 ft. deep, giant shovels scoop out a petroleum-soaked deposit called oil sand that is beginning a long journey from here into the gas tanks of American cars. The region contains enough of the crude mixture to produce an estimated 175 billion bbl. of oil, eight...
Flaherty worked in the pit of other shows, even two nights after Lucky Stiff opened. “It was a very humbling way to make money at that time, let me tell you,” Flaherty said...
...Center stood. What we learn from Okrent, a former editor of LIFE magazine, is how a group of mismatched and combustible characters could make the thing happen. It didn't require much. All they had to do was undertake a project that would have stumped the pharaohs, fight like pit vipers, face down the Depression, fend off naysayers on all sides and still produce what Okrent calls an "aesthetic, commercial, and--there's no other word for it--emotional success...
...Hand me a whistle and pit-stained T-shirt and call me Coach Jonnie. For 35 minutes, I ran a women’s rugby practice...