Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first decision day under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the U.S. Supreme Court this week handed down a ruling that almost everyone in organized baseball has been awaiting as a batter waits for a 3-2 pitch. The case before the court was brought by a minor-league owner and two players, who contended that baseball's "reserve clause" (which gives a ball club complete control over its players' careers and prevents them from signing up with other teams) creates an illegal monopoly in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. In its 7-2 ruling (Justices Burton and Reed dissenting...
Robert G. McCloskey, assistant professor of Government, said that Brownell's action "reflects a decision on the part of the attorney General and the administration to keep the Red hunt going at as high a pitch as possible in order to shift public attention away from the recent discontent shown in the by-elections...
...sopranos and altos had tones as clean as their well-scrubbed faces. Moreover, they sang with ease and confidence, never wavered from pitch, and phrased with the subtlety of master musicians. With heavier vocal underpinnings from 18 grownup "gentlemen of the choir," they sang a cycle of English church music from the days of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) and Henry Purcell to the present. Then, sometimes with the older choristers, sometimes without, they sang their way through a glowing repertory of folk songs and madrigals...
Excitement Centers. Workers of the same species are much alike physically, but psychologically they may vary widely. Some are lazy, some are stupid. Some are eager beavers always looking for trouble. These "excitement centers" are the leaders of the colony. When they see a job that needs doing, they pitch in furiously. Other ants copy their activity, and the excitement spreads until a swarm of ants is busy at the job. If the eager leaders are removed from a colony, its life slows down so much that it may disintegrate...
Nevertheless, the Crimson dominated play and held the ball almost the whole first half. After Clasby and McKenna exchanged punts--the worst trade for the Indians since Manhattan Island went for $24--Culver finally took a Clasby pitch-out and sped seven yards for the first score at 9:23 of the first quarter. Ross missed the extra point...