Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After eight weeks' silence, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai last week made another pitch for a cease-fire in Korea, demanding "unconditional" resumption of the Panmunjom talks...
...production, regretably, was not up to the quality of the script. A lack of integration marked first part and in a scene at the palace of Anides, the characters seemed isolated when the drama was at fever pitch. There was also a tendency, most disconcerting in short dialogue, to depend more and more on the script towards the end. Musical accompaniment and a good touch at the end helped to cover up some of the inadequacies...
...best shaft for me, and I believe I finally have it.'' A better explanation is his own steady game, carefully modeled on the best points of the past masters: the booming woods of Sam Snead, the deadly accurate putts of Harry Cooper, the chip-and-pitch artistry of Johnny Revolta, the long irons of older brother Ray Mangrum...
...showed his Phillies hurtling into home plate, reaching for high throws, waiting narrow-eyed for the pitch. His crowds sit in the smoky blue haze of night games, ripple away like waves as a pop foul lands in their midst...
...some chiefly to check up on Painter Meehan's baseball. One visitor was Robin Roberts, the Phillies' ace right-hander and the National League's top pitcher (28 games won) last year. Meehan found him frowning over a painting of himself pouring a pitch toward the plate during a night game, pressed him for an opinion. Pitcher Roberts explained that this was the first time he had ever been "within half a mile" of an art show, but he wanted to know: "What's my shortstop doing out of position, and looking towards the Scoreboard instead...