Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boeing, which had worked at fever pitch to push its sleek silver, yellow and brown plane into the air ahead of schedule, was stunned. But company engineers and officials could remember a far more serious accident that failed to stop another Boeing fledgling: on a test flight in 1935, Boeing's prototype B-17 Flying Fortress, which became the greatest European-theater bomber of World War II, crashed and burned...
...Gold: "An oily attempt to be ethical; treat instead of a treatment is an out-of-date pitch; poor delivery, little effort to give commercials any prestige; just bunk...
...issue with which he is particularly concerned as Attorney-General, Herbert Brownell's pitch to the people is clear: that the Democrats, though loyal, are too lax about Communists, the Midwesterners too reckless. He has never explicitly stated his theory of political success. But his actions make it quite clear; simply run a steamroller down the middle of the road...
...touched off a spate of statements urging direct negotiations with the Russians. In the German view, Dulles went to Geneva with both hands tied behind his back by Congress, and left looking like the small boy who takes the bat and ball home because he is not allowed to pitch. Wrote TIME'S Bonn correspondent: "The U.S. is Bonn's godfather; Bonn expects it to lead the infant Federal Republic out into the world. But daily the U.S. seems more lost itself...
...object of this acclaim takes his successes as calmly as his failures. Early in the season Turley pitched dramatic no-hit ball for eight and one-third innings against Cleveland, then lost the game 2-1 on a single and a home run by Larry Doby. Ordinarily, a pitcher would make crestfallen excuses. Not Turley. "I've always been amused," said he. "to read the statements pitchers make when something bad happens to them. 'The pitch got away from me.' they say. This one got away from me-350 feet away. I threw Doby the precise pitch...