Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Chancellor Robert Livingston, representing the law that preceded, underpinned and nourished the Constitution, administered the oath to the big, embarrassed man in the brown suit with eagles on its metal buttons. Then George Washington, painfully striving to strike exactly the right pitch on history's tuning fork, delivered on April 30, 1789 the first address by a President of the United States to the Congress. "The propitious smiles of Heaven," he said, "can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained . . . the sacred fire...
...Navy Base, passing along Roosevelt Boulevard, Truman Street (which sports a Margaret Truman Launderette) and by Eisenhower Drive, which had been known, until the night before his arrival, as North Beach Road. Not three hours afterwards, the President was happily whacking golf balls in 50-to 70-yd. pitch shots. Then he walked along the waterfront of the naval base, talking to his brother about the submarines, destroyers, and the varieties of palm trees they passed by. "Hope you feel better, Ike," one Navyman called out. "Thank you," the President replied. "I certainly should feel well in this climate...
...even his feud with the "damn bankers" caused Railroader Bob Young more trouble than his fight with a onetime associate named Randolph Phillips. Last week the Young-Phillips battle reached such a pitch that Young cried out in exasperation: "It's criminal. There ought to be a way to make Phillips pay for all the trouble." Grinned Phillips: "We stopped Young...
Phog then called in reinforcements, managed to enlist the help of 1) Negro Concert Singer Etta Moten, a Kansas alumna, who wrote to the Chamberlains, 2) Dowdal H. Davis, general manager of a Kansas City Negro weekly, who flew east to make his pitch, 3) Professor Calvin Vanderwerf, of K.U.'s chemistry department, who passed through Philadelphia and called on Wilt's mother. Said Mrs. Chamberlain: "We've had many colleges speak to us about Wilton, but you're the first one who was a professor. I'm so happy to have someone talk about...
...ignore traffic lights with grim fatalism. There is an incessant blowing of horns, but since all the horns sound alike (apparently having been made in the same factory), the result is a constant and unidentifiable shriek, except for horns on the cars of commissars which have a slightly varied pitch, at the first murmur of which the cops switch the manually operated traffic lights to green. Says U.S. Travel Expert John Stanton, just back from surveying the possibility of Cook's touring through Russia: "In Moscow I always hesitated before starting across a street. They are so wide...