Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth went into the lead in the second inning with two hitless runs. Two walks, and unsuccessful fielder's choice, a wild pitch, a sacrifice fly and the varsity was behind for the rest of the game. Dick Fisher, newly returned to action, scored Bob Cleary with a single in the third inning, but in the bottom of the same frame Dartmouth pounded Repetto for four runs to go ahead...
John Simourian lofted a home run over the right field fence in the fifth inning but Dartmouth came right back in the next inning to score on a single, a walk, and a wild pitch...
...Congressman William Dawson, i.e., that civil-rights problems belong to President Eisenhower, since it is up to him to enforce the law. So vital a role do civil rights and the Dawson line play in Democratic strategy that in New York last week Adlai Stevenson made a Dawson-like pitch the theme of a Waldorf-Astoria fund-raising dinner (net result: $140,000) that attracted such civil-rights stalwarts as Eleanor Roosevelt, New York's Senator Herbert Lehman and New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner...
...remodeled with glass walls and concealed lighting under supervision of the government, which classes the Café de la Paix as an artistic monument. Though most of the restaurant's specialities, e.g., la bouillabaisse de Marius, may be ordered at the counter, the management is making its big pitch for the tourist with short-order dishes that would have made Brillat-Savarin shudder. Items: Pacific Nightmare, a 95? pie filled with minced chicken and fresh mushrooms; Romeo and Juliette Tenderloin Steakie with watercress ($1.35); and 75? Frenchified "hush puppies," French fried cheese balls with salad...
...autobiography's "fadograph of a yestern scene" loses its glow of childhood happiness. But as he marched to the threshold of his middle years, James located himself: "What had I ever been and could I ever be but a man of imagination at the active pitch?" Much like James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the autobiography ends with James ready "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race...