Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the visitors hit as well as expected. They made only six safeties. But MacLeod was generous to a fault. Though he had good stuff, he walked nine, hit three, unleashed a wild pitch, and fumbled a bunt. His catcher, Bill Formosi, got into the spirit by committing three passed balls. The rest of the infield was poor, too, making five errors...
...defending League champs jumped to an early lead on two runs in the first. With one out, Bob Cleary walked and went to second when John Simourian grounded out. Bob Hastings singled Cleary home, and then went to second on a wild pitch, scoring on Dick Fisher's single...
...none of the newly independent nations of the Far East is hatred for the disinherited colonial masters so bitter and abiding as in Indonesia; in none is the notion of simple courtroom justice so little understood. Indonesia's bitterness and its slap-happy courtroom practices have reached fever pitch in the year-long trial of Leon Nicolaas Jungschlaeger, a 52-year-old Dutch citizen accused of conspiring to overthrow the Indonesian government. The Jungschlaeger case has become a cause celebre throughout Indonesia and The Netherlands...
...pudding tours have not had quite so disasterous culminations as this one, but in the long run, they have proved to be consistent money-losers. For instance, when the Pudding produced their hundredth show "Here's the Pitch," in 1948, the producers decided to celebrate. They sent the play to every big city east of the Mississippi, and ended up with a deficit of over $13,000. Since then, the Pudding has attempted to curtail such ambition...
...France's top technical schools. He sold his first propeller design to the War Ministry, and set up a small aircraft factory. Even after France nationalized its aviation industry in 1936, he was permitted to keep a small plant at Saint-Cloud, where he turned out variable-pitch propellers until France fell in World War II. Because he was a Jew and refused to make aircraft parts for the Nazis, he was arrested and eventually taken to Buchenwald...