Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National League, and Boston and Cleveland in the American League, he started in 874 games and won 511. Cy always claimed that he had won 512; either way his record is still unbroken. Unbroken also is his record of appearing in a total of 906 games, his lifetime pitching average of .619, his losing record of 315, and the astonishing record of 23 consecutive hitless innings he pitched in 1904. In 14 seasons he won 20 or more games; for five seasons he won more than 30. Only the late great Walter Johnson, who fanned 3,497 batters...
...Cover The excitement, the strain, the uncertainty in Britain had reached such a pitch that it could not long continue. In a nation which sets such store by seemliness, the situation was too unseemly to last. What had begun as a simple and sentimental story of a Princess in love had now become a crisis that deeply involved institutions close to the heart of every Briton: the Crown and the Established Church...
...Japanese also discovered that the Chinese had not come to Tokyo primarily to do business but to step up their propaganda campaign for removal of the U.N. and NATO embargoes on trade with Red China and to drive home Peking's pitch that the only way Japan can tap China's coal and iron is to trade strategic items, now banned under the embargoes, rather than consumer goods. Fair officials told would-be buyers that orders could not be taken, politely parried inquiries on prices, deliveries and quantities available. One reason was plain: few of the items...
With a third down and 13 yards to go on their own 23, the Tigers tried a bucklateral play with Martin banding off to quarterback John Sapoch, who was supposed to pitch-out to the tailback running wide. He never got rid of the ball. Meigs came bursting through and knocked it right out of Sapoch's hands. Kennedy recovered for the Crimson...
...York's pre-starched Governor Ave Harriman, who has never been press-photographed milking a cow (and never will be if his luck holds), planned to make his big pitch for farm support in another fashion at the Democrats' Midwest farm conference in Des Moines over the weekend. Harriman made the trip, his first speaking foray into the Midwest since the political season opened, to outline a farm policy based on price supports at 90% of parity-a figure calculated to comfort farmers and discomfit Adlai Stevenson...