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Word: pitch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colombia's three-year undeclared civil war reached a new pitch of ferocity. Heretofore, most of the fighting had been confined to the countryside, where Conservative troops and police fought pitched battles against "bandits," i.e., Liberal guerrillas. Last week the capital city of Bogotá was torn with strife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Wheel of Hate | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Next day, speaking before the New York State Democratic Convention, the Democratic candidate made a careful pitch to one of the nation's largest "specialinterest" groups-its Negro voters. He was "favorably impressed," said Stevenson, by a proposed bill which would create a federal Fair Employment Practices Commission, but which would also encourage the federal commission to stay out of any state which had an effective FEPC law of its own. In a speech accepting the presidential nomination of New York's Liberal Party, he continued to hammer at the civil rights theme, and went on to denounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Smart Quarterback | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...arrived over Kansas City in the midst of a heavy rainstorm. For 75 minutes the plane circled. Then it made one hair-raising pass at the field and pulled up again. The final landing was a thriller. The pilot came down in thick rain through pitch blackness, hit the runway with engines roaring and bounced 50 feet into the air before settling back. It was 3 .a.m. before Ike got to bed in Kansas City's Town House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just the Beginning | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Acutely aware of anti-Americanism in Iraq, the State Department decided last spring that it had better give 17-year-old King Feisal II a sales pitch; it invited him to visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Hey King | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...pitch-black morning in August 1943, Lieut. Kennedy's PT boat was sliced in two by a Japanese destroyer patrolling the Solomon Islands. With ten crew members, Kennedy swam from one island to another for six days before being rescued, was later cited for bravery and for saving the lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Big Battles | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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