Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...elegant portraitists, Reynolds and Gainsborough, ruled the calm and decorous art world of 18th Century London. But there was also an opposition, most notably represented by young, deeply religious William Blake with his alternately angelic and demonic visions. Others in the opposition ducked the angels; they preferred the Pit...
...sifted the rest of the trove, they had recovered records of 51 such conferences, some complete, some so badly burned that only a few pages could be made out. What the searchers retrieved amounted only to a tantalizing sample of what the Nazis had committed to their fire pit: the records of several thousand Hitler staff conferences. Even so, as a private, bald-faced recital by Hitler of his philosophy and strategy between December 1942 and March 1945, the sample was a document of major historical importance...
...hours, totally mine, in which the conductor does not interfere at all." She never got it. She quickly learned that opera is a compromise between the eye & the ear-and that "the Met's great god is time." Even when Conductor Stiedry was not rushing up from the pit to correct an eighth note, or Designer Gerard was not moving a table or chair, she felt "them" creeping in on her: "The orchestra manager looking at his wrist watch and peering earnestly at me; the chorus master shifting on his feet, surreptitiously looking at his watch; the head stagehand...
Shaft wheels halted, children stood silently in empty coal trucks and villagers tensely closed in on a pit official as he read aloud from a pink slip of paper: "There is no possibility of any of the men remaining in the district affected being alive . . . It was then unanimously decided that no course remained except to seal off the affected part of the pit. This work is now taking place...
...Professor La Paz spoiled the whole yarn by announcing that he had found, close to the lip of the crater, a pit house of prehistoric, 1000 A.D. Indians who obviously did not fear the place too much to live there. He suspects that the legend was invented recently by white men. Geological evidence indicates that the meteor probably fell more than 50,000 years ago, when it is unlikely that humans were around to be frightened...