Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilians were at no less a fever pitch than U.S. soldiers. Coal Strikes I & II had already cost the country ten million tons of coal production; they had meant the loss of 16,000 tons of pig iron and 20,000 tons of steel IL the western Pennsylvania steel district alone. That iron, thought the citizens, would have killed a lot of Japs and Germans...
...breweries, taverns, bakeries, big industries and little individuals with a yen to see their names sprawled across the satin backs or sweatered fronts of cavorting U.S. tomboys. On Softball's miniature diamond (bases are 60 ft. apart instead of 90) and aided by Softball's underhand pitching, girls can pitch, bat, field grounders, otherwise perform like a reasonable facsimile of the male...
...control of credit, a feeble application of the Keynes public-works principles, handouts à la Townsend. The attempt was foredoomed by Alberta's economic dependence, the hostility of courts and capital. One of the few non-Marxian reformers taken at his word and told by the voters to pitch in, he did not look like a demagogue to small Canadian investors who knew his administration's clean, high-ranking record in developing natural resources...
...Army will train about 100,000 airborne troops this year; one airborne division, the 82nd, is nearing combat pitch now. They are trained to fight alongside ground-bound outfits when gliders are not needed...
...Deacons lost their only contest of the season in this twin bill when Mike DeLeo pitched the Commuters to a 12 to 4 win. Kirkland came through in the second game, necessary to the championship, behind the twirling and hitting of Mort Mendelsohn, 4 to 1. Mike DeLeo tried to pitch the second tussle for Dudley but the Deacon swatters, sparked by Manny Holman's homer, piled up an undestroyed lead...