Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtain went up, ten masked men, in white gloves and spats, gestured grotesquely around a green baize table. To the impious tango rhythms of two pianos in the pit, the diplomats on stage wrangled and jumped on the table, their arguments increasing in fury until one of the peacemakers fired a toy pistol. That brought war-in which death was represented by a goose-stepping skeleton-into the scene. When all who accompanied Death-soldiers in battle and women at home-were dead, the false-faced peacemakers gathered again at their green table and waved their arms and fought...
...Dung Pit. Grosz spent the first months of World War I as a bored infantryman. Hospitalized for "brain fever" and then discharged, Grosz made an ivory tower of his Berlin studio. "The walls, ceiling and furniture were . . . decorated with cigar bands, bits of broken mirror, and stars made of tinsel," he remembers...
...Grosz was drafted again. Says he: "I just couldn't take it any more. One night I was found semiconscious, partially buried in a dung pit. ... I was placed in an asylum for war-crazed, shell-shocked and insane soldiers." Grosz emerged from the asylum a pale hurricane of rage. He had reason to hate the men who had been on top in Germany, and "among the masses I found scorn, mockery, fear, oppression, falsehood, betrayal, lies and filth-in abundance." In beaten Germany he found an abundance of subjects, drew thousands of dagger-sharp drawings of pig-faced...
M.I.T. will pit a relatively inexperience, medium-sized basketball team against the Crimson Varsity Saturday night in the opening game for both squads, reports from the Massachusetts Avenue institution disclosed yesterday...
...other things, the original Handsome Dan, stuffed and mounted, and one of the country's finest indoor swimming pools with excellent seating accommodations for spectators. So numerous are the tiers of seats, placed almost vertically one above the other, that from the bottom one feels sunk in an enormous pit and from the top one has the sensation of an aerial view of the water below...