Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army & Navy could not bring themselves to Mr. May's cocky pitch. In Russia, Africa, China and in the Battle of the Atlantic, the United Nations waited in the maw of danger...
...People have been cynical about officeholders for years, but in peacetime they merely talked about it casually; after all, it didn't make a great deal of difference. They always believed that when the chips were down the leaders would quit playing politics and get in there and pitch. But the chips are down now and the shenanigans continue, from high places on down. So the people say: "The hell with it. I'm going to get mine while the getting is good...
Behind Argentina's boneless neutrality, observers continued to read the Castillo. Government's fear that one more bungled German sinking of an Argentine ship would arouse to fever pitch that large part of the Argentine public which, unlike President Castillo, would gladly repudiate German designs on the Western Hemisphere...
...highly esteemed Lovell squad, which had 19 wins and four losses this year. Lefty Davis, former Eastern League hurler, went the distance for the losers, scattering eight hits except for the second inning when he gave a trio of safeties. Red Sox farmhand Walsh, who was slated to pitch, was saved for an Army league game yesterday and only appeared as a successful pinch hitter in the ninth...
Tomorrow the Varsity meets a team from the Coast Guard Receiving Station at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field and has a three game schedule planned for next week. Warren Berg or Joe Phelan is slated to pitch against the Coast Guard nine...