Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astounded the industry by turning a profit the first year, has never since recorded a loss. Two months ago, when the A.F.L. Upholsterers International Union tried to organize one of his companies, he called a meeting of employees, and turned it over to the union organizers to make their pitch; when they were done, Sligh answered them point by point, but assured his employees they had every right to organize. In the election that afternoon, the union polled only 30% of the votes...
...Rapids in 1914 and hustled to Flint to start in as a bookkeeper for G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division. Within a year, he was AC's comptroller, the youngest executive (at 21) in the industry. He got a reputation as a comer who could "pitch, catch and cover first base at the same time." He learned finance, production and design, showed an aggressive flair for sales. At 35, he was named AC's president...
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...Fairfield, Connecticut, has come a long way since the last two minutes of the 1951 Yale game. At that time, he had just set up the Crimson's third touchdown with a sloppy pass into the flat; rotund Herman Hickman sent Molloy into the game with this advice--"you pitch 'em out kid, and I'll start heading out of town." Molloy did indeed "pitch 'em out," connecting for four of five for 65 yards and a touchdown. And although Hickman has since left town, Molloy is still pitching them...
Before college football adopted some professional standards, a forward passer had to be five yards back of the line of scrimmage. Before that, two incomplete passes in a row drew a 5-yd. penalty. Nowadays, a sleight-of-hand T-quarterback may pitch right from the line of scrimmage; he may also flip four failures in a row without penalty-though his coach might have something to say about that. The new rules deliberately encourage a more open style of play, and good passers have popped up all over the football map this year. Key men in the T-formation...