Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over a Barrel. If Kenny was strong in the statehouse, he was fading back home in Jersey City. Aware of this, Murray joined a city commission ticket made up of other unhappy anti-Kenny men, fought a hard seven-week rough-and-ready municipal campaign. Their anti-boss pitch was effective. In last week's election the Murray men buried four members of Kenny's five-man slate (Kenny himself was not running) in an outpouring of votes...
...devices to listen in on what their employees are saying in rest rooms, company dining rooms and elsewhere in the plant. In Los Angeles some used-car dealers bug rooms where prospective car purchasers are left with their wives; thus the salesman can pick up tips for a new pitch by listening to the family discussion of who likes what and how much the family budget will stand...
...next one. In the split second that it takes a ball to travel 60 ft. 6 in. from the pitcher's mound to the plate, Gil noted with surprise that Cleveland Southpaw Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone. Pitcher Score crumpled. Blood burst from his nose and mouth...
Botsford scored for the Crimson in the fifth on a walk, a sacrifice, a long fly ball, and a wild pitch to tie the game. Harvard returned the free run in the bottom of the fifth as Gordon Achilles singled, reached third on another base hit, and tallied on a passed ball...
...Crimson will fly to Philadelphia today, where Bob McGinnis will pitch against a Quaker squad that has failed to win in two EIBL games...