Word: pitting
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...trombone players vaulted out of the orchestra pit, swinging their horns like battle-axes. Then the woodwinds, a double-bass player and even the first violins joined in, tearing furiously into the astonished audience in pursuit of hecklers' blood. When the police arrived, chairs were flying through the air across the courtyard of Venice's Palazzo Ducale. It took a frantic half hour to drag all the punch-drunk musicologists out into St. Mark's Square for a cooling breath...
...soul. Baker never writes a noun without leashing a seeing-eye adjective to it, never overlooks a cliché, never fails to labor an image ("The windshield wiper describing its captive arc back and forth, back and forth, like that descending knife in the story of the pit and the pendulum...
Into this pit of war, fear and intrigue, the U.S. is sending tough-minded Henry Cabot Lodge to replace Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting, who in 2| years in Saigon has been totally committed to Diem. The U.S. is hopeful?but not overly confident?that Lodge can make Diem more receptive to U.S. advice. Whatever Diem does, there is at least one South Vietnamese leader who will listen to advice with a ravishing smile, and probably refuse to accept it. Mme. Nhu is eagerly awaiting Lodge's arrival. Noting his middle name, she says: "We hear that in his family, they...
...this boy of easy, brilliant talents went into the pits like his father and grandfather before him. That he became a Marxist is not surprising. It was hard not to have hard feelings about the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co. One early strike eloquently led by young Nye was called because the company had docked a miner a day's pay: the idle fellow had taken off part of the working day to convey home the body of a comrade killed working down the pit. So the world was black and white for young Nye Bevan as he became...
...concoction that will make him strong, handsome and irresistible to women-for what woman could resist a sun-lamp tan, a Shinola coiffure, a high-roll shirt collar, and an electric blue suit with black lapels? Thus decked out, God's gift to coeds invades the Purple Pit (a Paramount updating of the old campus hangout) to dazzle the denizens. He bullies some fullbacks, sings some songs in a Jerry-built baritone, and tells the chicks to call him Buddy Love. All this is too much for Student Stella Stevens, and off they go to a parking spot...