Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winds that blow Spain toward economic bankruptcy are sharper now than ever before. High prices for food fan the little man's desperation to a sharper pitch. The stink of governmental inefficiency and corruption is rising above normal. But the best guess is that Generalissimo Francisco Franco will probably not reap his whirlwind just yet. For he holds as tight as ever the only windbreaks that count-the army and the police...
...Said the farewell issue under the old regime: "Today, we pick up our soapbox and move over to another corner. The old pitch was a good one. . . . But the traffic has changed. . . . We still can't help feeling some twinges of nostalgia...
With the quest for the American dollar at a new pitch of intensity, cities all over the United States are beginning to fill up with European goods of all shapes and varieties--not the least of them being phonograph records. Imported records, traditionally the province of two stores in New York City, have suddenly been made available to Bostonians and even to residents of the Harvard Square area...
...Kister, or Gerald L. K. Smith, or William Dudley Pelley harangning a crowd of 52-20's in a shabby meeting house on the edge of a large Eastern city. It is a rally of "We, the Mothers," anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-"furriner" feeling whipped to a fever pitch. Or it is a gathering of Ku Kluxers, mapping strategy for the killing of three Negroes...
Preparations for the Crimson eleven's battle royal with Yale on Saturday reached near-fever pitch yesterday, as Coach Dick Harlow crammed every available minute of practice with his newly-installed offensive and defensive maneuvers...