Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Political feelings have reached such a pitch of bitterness that the resignation of Mikolajczyk now might easily plunge Poland into a civil war far bloodier than the current fighting with underground Fascists. Knowing this, Mikolajczyk is determined to stay...
Guessing Game. Feller was finally ready for the first pitch. His arms heaved from below his knees to a great overhead stretch, his left leg twisted up & around, he practically put his gloved hand in the batter's face, his right arm snapped through with as much wrist English as though he were cracking a blacksnake whip. The Yankee lead-off man hardly saw the first one that buzzed by with a full two-inch...
Exactly 132 pitches later, rapid Robert Feller had walked five men, fanned eleven, and given up nothing more substantial than two lazy outfield flies. For this great performance, he rated about 75% of the credit. The other 25% went to lean-jawed, iron-man Catcher Frank Hayes, who outguessed the Yankee hitters all afternoon. When they expected the fast one, Hayes signaled for Feller's equally effective curve, or his new slider (a pitch that begins fading away from a right-handed hitter halfway down the alley). Said Feller: "I didn't shake off his signals once...
...Varsity's four tallies were chalked up in the first inning. Don Swegan topped a pitch, sending it bouncing down the third base line, and beat out the pitcher's throw. He stole second and, after Pete Petrillo had bee walked, made third base when Bob Brownell, Bruin shortstop who was credited with four errors for the contest, fumbled Bill Fitz' grounder...
What Kapitza was doing last week was a pitch-black secret. No doubt the Soviet Institute of Physical Problems, which he heads, was frantically busy with bomb research. But the U.S.S.R. has other excellent physicists. To its Government, Kapitza was most valuable as a symbol of national security. To U.S. academicians, Peter Kapitza also stood as a symbol-a living symbol of science's lost internationalism...