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Word: pitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to get into people's benches, pit our bench against their bench and see who's going to win," Roby said...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Cagers Looking For Respect In Nebraska Tourney Opener | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

...train whenever I want and go all over the country--although things are really far apart. I'm writing you from the middle of this dirt-pit known as Dakong. It is the home of some amazing 1560-year-old Buddhist caves which hold huge three-story-high Buddhas. Truly breathtaking. The monuments here are built on such a grand scale...

Author: By Eliza Rosenbluth, | Title: Choosing Culture Over Politics | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

Blasphemer. Sinner. A pox on thee and on thy children's children. May you choke on a wishbone. Thou shalt be cast unto the deepest pit of the abyss. And there shall rise a foul beast, a beast of the sorrowful appellation, "Benno." And in the seventh fire of the seventh hell shalt thou be tormented by the unrepentant spirit of Brian Dowling. And your skin shall be as pigskin, and your heart pierced by the spikes of vengeful Harvard guard Doug Rosenberry...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: There's No Excuse to Stay in Cambridge | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...clearly a warm-up for the 25threunion," Whitney says. "It's supposed to leaveyou with a warm feeling in the pit of yourstomach." And, he says, "most people know that the25th is a special reunion--you're expected to givean especially large gift...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Harvard Prepares Funding Pitch | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...wouldn't want to be General Manuel Noriega the next time George Bush gets a bead on him. For reasons having more to do with random events and petty frustration than with any rational calculus of relative evil and threat to the nation, the pit-faced Panamanian dictator is now U.S. Public Enemy No. 1. Our top foreign policy goal, for the moment, is to wipe him out. Nothing would add more to the nation's pursuit of happiness. Even those liberal Democrats who would want six months of hearings before responding to a nuclear attack are screaming for blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: We Shoot People, Don't We? | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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