Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game uses two wickets, which face one another at either end of the 22-yard long "pitch." One batsman comes out and stands in front on a wicket ready to defend it. Another batsman stands beside the other wicket. The enemy pitcher or "bowler" pitches overhand from the undefended wicket towards the defending batsman and tries to hit his wicket. If he can do so, the unlucky batsman will be declared "stumped," and will have to retire off the field, to be replaced by a teammate. Since a team numbers eleven players, the enemy will have to knock out nine...
...pundits took time to look across the fence and ask a question: What did Harry Truman's announcement mean to the Republicans? Bob Taft thought it made no difference in the campaign for the G.O.P. nomination. Some other political strategists thought it would force Taft to re-pitch his campaign, because Truman has been his chief target. Ike's position, in one sense, was less difficult now: he wouldn't have to run against the man who was his Commander-in-Chief...
...coops take turns at planning meals, shopping, and cooking. Planning the meals requires imagination, and the girls take pride in the variety and excellence of their cooking. No one has to be afraid of mistakes, however. The girls are tolerant of errors and there is always someone ready to pitch in and help if the cake doesn't rise, or something "just goes wrong" with the mashed potatoes...
Iraq's oil is a big IF. The oil is there, all right, and has been since recorded history. Noah caulked his Ark "within and without with pitch" taken from bitumen springs in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley. Just a few hundred yards from where Nebuchadnezzar, "full of fury," cast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery, oil-fed furnace, Iraq Petroleum (then called Turkish Petroleum) in 1927 blew in its first well with a gush that could not be controlled for three days. Iraq's proven reserve (7.5 billion barrels in the Kirkuk field alone) is within...
...that really bound the friendship was Ford's discovery that Duke played a sharp hand at Ford's favorite game, Pitch. "It's an old New England game-High, Low, Jack and the Game," explains Ford. On Ford sets, whenever Duke wasn't studying the director's professional tricks or shifting props, the two could be found behind some inconspicuous piece of scenery, "claiming low" on one another...