Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cricket club, which is not recognized by the H.A.A., is entirely self-supporting. It has a good supply of equipment, and, through the courtesy of the Boston Parks Department, the use of a pitch on North Harvard St., just beyond Soldiers Field...
Author Duff maintains an insistent pitch of anger that makes the book as uncomfortable as it is meant to be, although the anger at times sounds almost old-fashioned in an age when the gallows take far fewer lives than more modern means of destruction. Author Duff will convince all but the most sadistic reader that the gallows are brutal, and that even the basest criminals are too good for hanging. But all he may accomplish is that reformers will propose some more efficient or humanitarian substitutes for the gallows-such as the neat old guillotine, the quick bullet...
...remembers her at this period as "terribly sedate, always wore tweed suits and a hat-with-a-veil kind of thing. She had any number of sensible shoes, even some with those awful flaps on front." She did TV commercials ("I was terrible-honestly, anyone watching me give the pitch for Old Golds would have switched to Camels"), doggedly made the rounds of summer stock (New Hope and Denver) and casting offices. "I've read for almost everything that's been cast. I even read for the ingenue part in The Country Girl on Broadway (left...
...often happens in a soundly built play, all the actors turned in superlative jobs. Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity...
...pass by Graham, intended for Cleveland End Darrell Brewster, was knocked out of Brewster's hands but alertly grabbed in midair by Cleveland Halfback Ray Renfro. That set up the Browns' fourth touchdown, and the fifth followed when Renfro made a miraculous fingertip catch of a Graham pitch in the end zone...