Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andy Ward, the Crimson's strong right hander, winner over Virginia, 9-6, last week, is McInnis' choice this afternoon against the perennially weak Engineers. Number two hurler, sophomore Ken Rossano will probably pitch against Boston University at Braves Field tomorrow...
...confession." Grajales answered: "I signed that paper because I had seen three weeks of solitary confinement with frequent beatings. I had to sign it. Now, before God, I swear that there is not one word of truth in my so-called confession." Silence hung in the courtroom, thick as pitch. The prosecutor squirmed...
...picture's frantic and continued pitch is actually the only factor that at times edges Beauty beyond the point of excellence into the realm of excess. Josette Day's performance as Beauty scores the danger larking in an overdose of horror. The plot demands that the heroinc ignore self-opening doors, living statuary and arms that project through the wall to hold candelabra. Furthermore, she must recognize the pure soul of the Beast shining through a hair-matted body and lighting a vaguely feline and totally grotesque face (superb make-up, this). Well, the actress does not live...
...Some got the Senator in a corner and talked earnestly to him. Some wandered into the kitchen and sampled the bourbon. Some just stood around. Between conversations and phone calls, the Senator ate dinner in the kitchen. The broiler of pork chops, having eaten his fill, made a serious pitch for a job, but the Senator promised nothing...
...going to the White House." Kyes and Stevens crossed the Potomac, joined the still-cerebrating Meeting No. 5, which was now augmented by Presidential Chief of Staff Sherman Adams and others. While the conferees in the Cabinet Room sweated over their draft, President Eisenhower was practicing pitch shots on the nearby White House lawn. When Meeting No. 6 had finished its labors, it found Ike in his second-floor study and brought him the statement. The President strengthened the language in one spot, gave it his "100% approval...