Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airplane and fix the fire hole within two or three hours. Bill cruised every foot of Iraq with a Kurdish interpreter and 16 Arabs-got interested in Biblical lore, measured the marks left by Noah's flood, reconstructed the story of the ark. Says Noah was a pitch dealer-built the ark to carry pitch to Babylon just as the Arabs do today...
...Turks as to where the landing was to be. He pushed a raft containing these in front of him. It was a frosty night, and he was naked and painted black. Firing from the ships was going on all around. It was a two hours' swim in pitch darkness. He did it, crawled through the scrub to listen to the talk of the enemy, who were so near that he could have shaken hands with them, lit his decoys and swam back...
...eminent an authority as Major Al Williams would seem to meet a vital need. But Major Williams' work itself is bound to disappoint the reader who hopes for a clear-cut expression of what's what in aerial warfare. When Major Williams is discussing such matters as fixed-pitch versus controllable-pitch propellers, his writing is clear and forthright, and it isn't hard to sense the assurance of a man who knows his business and enjoys talking about it. When he talks of engines and wing-structures, his book is absorbing even to the casual reader...
...years oldtime Pitcher Smoky Joe Wood, the Bob Feller of 30 years ago, has been coaching at Yale, home-teaching his own three spratlings the tricks of the game. Last fortnight Yale played Colgate. Pitching for Yale was his biggest boy, Joe Jr., now a senior and captain of the team. On the mound for Colgate was Second Son Steve. Youngest Son Bobby, who also can pitch, played first base for Colgate. Smoky Joe couldn't lose. Yale...
...enough, Tony, I'm going in to pitch...