Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audience participation against the Elis will be whipped to the zenith pitch with the largest pre-game rally and march of the year headed by the University band on Friday and the first Stadium flash card display ever staged in the Soldiers Field stands between the halves of the clash...
...bare legged "Cliffsters yielded not so much as a hair ribbon for three periods. Desperate in the closing minutes of the struggle, the quarterback of the Charles River Chargers called a squeeze play on the next pitch. The center was low and outside and in the shower roam he said it was the "Christmas Night" perfume of the Radcliffe left tackle that made him score a touchdown in the wrong end song...
That ugly word "up", which the Harvard team isn't supposed to the this week, has been an almost endless topic of discussion for Boston sports writers. Observers close to the squad are of the belief that, while not at the high emotional pitch reached for the Holy Cross game--a tension that will not return until Yale week--the Varsity is fully aware of the power latent in the Rutgers attack, and is far from complacent...
...shrill pitch of abuse heaped upon the President continued to echo. So mild a man as Harry Truman might well wonder at the temper of his countrymen...
...Romantic Disguise. He likewise crystallized the facts of life. There were the endless pursuits-sometimes in romantic disguise-of ladies of fashion; once, even, there were three ecstatic days spent hidden in the pitch-black cellar of a chateau, while the loved one (whose husband had come home unexpectedly) periodically lowered food, a chamber pot, and herself on the end of a rope...