The Israelis' return fire, which left the Abdullahs' house pitted with bullet holes, struck Mahmoud Abdullah in the head.
After carrying out a geophysical survey last summer, she said she was astonished to find evidence of a huge landscape, including at least 13 round-houses, quarry pits and track-ways covering at least 13 fields, the first of its kind for the county.
Orchestra players are free to operate at full power, allowing listeners to hear better what opera-house pits so often half-disguise.
The battle over the building, which is being given away as part of a city program to preserve low-cost housing, pits the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty against a Brooklyn developer, Joseph Spitzer, and it is now the subject of a City Council investigation.
Like some crazy mixed-up house pet — part pit bull, part lap dog — the Broadway musical has taken to biting and licking simultaneously the hand that feeds it.
These decorative elements had a performative purpose; vessels like this one would have been placed on the hearth at the center of a type of Jomon house, a pit house, creating a kind of shadow theater on the walls.
Around the corner from Tyrone Williams's house, a pit bull, a Rottweiler, and a tiny Pekinese looked attentively at us as we passed by.
He said the proposals, put to last year's conference by Greg Clark, secretary of state for communities and local government, had shown that the government and social housing providers had been able to find "common cause" quickly and he rejected the idea that the housing market should be about conflict between public and private housing, or pit renters v buyers.
Somehow, we started calling this space, and the collaboration that it housed, the Pit.
