Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undoubtedly prepared to concede something, and delegates from both countries have just begun negotiating in Washington. How much Panama gets in the end may depend a lot on just how tactful a pitch likable, English-speaking Chichí Remón was able to make to Ike at dinner this week...
Betting odds on the Series have leaped to 9 to 5 in favor of the Yanks, and in some places the line is as high as 2 to 1. For the second game, a couple of veteran soft-stuff southpaws are slated to pitch. With Eddie Lepat going for the Yanks and Preacher Roe for the Dodgers, the Brooks are rated 6 to 5 underdogs...
...virtues, the screen version of Nicholas Montsarrat's novel proves that British films can overstate their famous technique of understatement. Depicting five years of war on board a British corvette escorting conveys, the Cruel Sea dampens even highly dramatic episodes with a monotonous restraint that rarely varies the emotional pitch of the film. Only in the flaw less performance of Jack Hawkins as the captain of an inexperienced crew is there a gauge of the intensity of each experience. In spite of Hawkins, the two hour film often seems as endless as the ocean which hides the subs the corvette...
...Habit. Brooklyn will need its power. In the American League, the Yankees have made the same kind of runaway; this week, by beating second-place Cleveland two in a row, they clinched the pennant with a 13-game lead. Manager Casey Stengel has a cool, battle-hardened pitching staff to throw at the Dodgers: Whitey Ford (17-5), Eddie Lopat (15-3), Vic Raschi (12-5), onetime National Leaguer Johnny Sain (14-6). Backing them up is the greatest money pitcher in either league: Allie Reynolds, who at 34 can still pitch his way out of a tight spot with...
...torpedo hit and Perth keeled over, he was trapped far below decks. Only perfect presence of mind and the lucky chance that his Mae West was only half-inflated saved him. As the water rose in the sinking hull. Gillan calmly let himself float upward with it through the pitch-dark passages of the ship, the air in his life jacket buoying him gently, but not so much as to force him against the overhead, where he could not maneuver. After a few awful minutes, he drifted out of the Perth like a ghost from the tomb...