Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early to guess, last week, whether Kenny could beat Earl Warren. But it was obvious that the race would be tense and close and that Kenny would pitch his full share of curves...
...forgets it and gets to talking about a stray cat from a carnival pitch, a good-looking girl, with a hard voice, named Lane Ballou (Judith Parrish). She gets involved in Semple's machinations and winds up first in the country prison farm, then in the local house of ill repute. The girl's part is not well played, and accenting it makes "Flamingo Road" frequently border on standard melodrama...
European nationalism in the mid-20th Century had reached a pitch which forced Jews to react with a desperate nationalism of their own. But between them and a Palestine refuge stood another offshoot of European chauvinism, the awakened nationalism of the Arab states and their new instrument, the Arab League. Only superficially was the current Zionist issue the same as before the war. On both sides the pressures had become many times as intense and explosive...
Somebody asked him what a ham-&-egg artist is. The President illustrated it with a southpaw pitch, as if throwing something at an imaginary canvas. Their paintings, he said, look as if they stood off and threw...
...merely in the hands of OPA (although he hoped that something would be done about ceiling prices). The real solution, said Young Henry, lay in the hands of everyone. It was time for the U.S. to roll up its sleeves, set aside all other considerations and "pitch in and work...