Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President David McDonald of the United Steelworkers went on network television and loudly announced that he too was for Harriman. McDonald's steelworkers are mighty in Pennsylvania, and some Philadelphia delegates were raring to go with him. The Pennsylvania delegation caucused, and Dave McDonald made a fiery pitch for Harriman support. But Finnegan's protege, Governor George Leader, laid out the political facts of life. Snapped he: if any delegate hoped to do any future business with Harrisburg, he had blamed well better stick with Stevenson. Result: a flame out for Harriman's chances in Pennsylvania...
This is the old American story of the clash of generations, the impact of modern life on tradition. That Author Shellabarger wrote it at a pitch of sincerity cannot be doubted. Unfortunately, he was a carpenter of fiction and not an architect. In his historicals, that fact was nearly a virtue. In Tolbecken it exposes all his built-in limitations. The story is wooden, the characters stock, and coincidence is made to do the work of imagination. Yet it is so rare to find a contemporary novelist writing in praise of character that the literary defects seem almost less important...
...star of the film was clearly the chorus; and the whole production seemed to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sang beautifully together and were right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, was unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert was the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapted most effective the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
...interfere with those who intend to pursue a legitimate career in physical education, sport administration, press, radio, etc." Just when aspiring pros became illegitimate, Brundage did not say. ¶ Spinning the ball with a vicious kick off the pock-marked turf of Manchester's Old Trafford cricket pitch, England's Jim Laker had Australian batsmen making the long walk to the wicket as if it were a short walk to the gallows. In the deciding match of the Test series, he skittled out the Aussies (taking nine wickets in the first innings, all ten in the second...
...quicker to "go steady." ¶ Teen-agers laugh at parents' fears that rock 'n' roll is a menace to morals. They regard it merely as a "revved-up version of the Charleston or Lindy hop." What impresses editors more than such findings is Gilbert's pitch, backed by statistics, that "your future circulation depends on this youth market." Gilbert and his newspapers assume that young people are just as curious as their eternally puzzled elders to get the answers on problems of the young...