Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propaganda battle over Gruner's sentence mounted last week to a pitch of frenzy, with ads in U.S. newspapers (paid for by the League for a Free Palestine) asserting that Gruner was still alive only because the pressure of U.S. opinion restrained the British from a "pogrom which will write finis to the Hebrews in Palestine." Amid this hysteria the actual crime in which Gruner had been involved was almost lost from sight. It contained in miniature the chief elements of the Palestine crisis...
...through George's fourth and fifth ribs and gingerly pulled out the pencil. It had been driven in four inches, penetrating the pericardium (outer sac of the heart). George's coolness, they allowed, had certainly saved his life. What George wanted to know was: Could he pitch for the baseball team, come spring? Doctors thought he probably could...
...noon, with the sun blazing down, Australia's best bowler let go with the first ball. It zipped in nearly as fast as a baseball pitch (about 65 m.p.h.), hit the ground just in front of the batsman, where he would have to hit it on the pickup. England's lead-off man blocked it off to one side. The fourth of the Test Matches, the World Series of cricket...
...nose and poked their fingers in his eyes." The sons were roughnecks: "Willie and Tad . . . rifled the drawers and riddled boxes, battered the points of my gold pens against the stairs, turned over the inkstands on "the papers. ... I wanted to wring the necks of these brats and pitch them out of the windows...
...with his subjects. Last week at a Manhattan gallery he seemed to be trying two at once. Half the paintings on show were piney, briny souvenirs of Kantor's summers at Monhegan, Me. They looked a little as though they had been pasted together with pine needles and pitch. The other half, not so successful, appeared to be woodenish mannequins with several heads, gilded and decorously draped with penciled nets...