Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla. At Jarama he led the puny British left wing's machine-gun crew through pitch night to a hill looking down on whole tribes of Moors. At dawn his guns nearly wiped out the boxed-in Moors. Late in the action he got a bullet in his knee, next day got typhoid. He recovered, fought again and was wounded again, on the Aragon front...
...Cover) Since World War II began 14 months ago the Balkan Peninsula has run a temperature. Periodic scares have sent it to fever pitch, then dropped it as, one way or another, neighboring powers got their way without bloodshed. Rumania is partitioned and overrun by the German Army. Bulgaria takes orders from the Axis. Even Yugoslavia, which has a relatively large, well-trained Army, has taken the path of appeasement. This week war came at last to the Balkans, to the weakest country, but to the one country determined enough to stand up to Axis threats - to Greece...
...York City's hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia, after collaring and shaking the shirt buttons off a tall Detroit heckler who dared ask whether Boss Flynn had sent him, toddled back to Manhattan, pitch-piped (to a N. Y. Herald Tribune Forum audience): "Myself, I never...
...pitch-potent Cincinnati Reds, National League pennant winners: baseball's 37th annual World Series; nosing out the slugging Detroit Tigers, American League champions, 2-to-1, in the seventh and last game; the National League's first victory since 1934, Cincinnati's first world championship since the scandalous Black Sox series of 1919; at Crosley Field, Cincinnati...
...Showboat, was not alarmed. A cocky, 32-year-old righthander who had roamed the major leagues for ten years but had never wound up on a pennant-winning team, Newsom had told the baseball world before the season started that he would pitch Detroit into winning this year's American League pennant...