Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superfluous fifth test has been played this week-started in Sydney, where England won by ten wickets. Australia won the second match at Melbourne but only after famed Don Bradman, whom Antipodeans justifiably consider the greatest batsman in the world, had been bowled for a duck on the first pitch in full view of 64,000 admirers. The third match, at Adelaide, gave rise to a deplorable controversy about the "body-line" bowling of Harold Larwood, who aimed his pitches so that they hit one Australian batsman on the chest and another on the head. Bowler Larwood was loudly barracked...
...standards Japan's middle classes are miserably poor, but even the poorest patriot can give his mite. Last week the Japanese mite was fixed, for patriotic purposes, at five sen (1? current exchange). Two million workers pledged that every month for the next three years each will pitch five sen into a "War Chest" of $720,000 which will be offered to the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, "Son of Heaven...
...with great reluctance. . . ." While waiting for the B. C. C. to decide whether or not to resume the test matches (with England ahead, 2-to-1, in the three-out-of-five series) the British team engaged in an exhibition match with New South Wales on a rain-soaked pitch at Sydney...
...demand of the Government whether Japan has a definite foreign policy!" screamed Mr. Ashida, well knowing that he may be assassinated for his rashness. "The public is growing fearful that we are being dragged blindly by the Army in an uncharted, pitch-black abyss. I appeal to the War Minister to forsake the notion that the Japanese Army is almighty...
...sirocco, fleas, dirt and picturesque boredom of Sardinia. Like all Northerners with noses she was chiefly impressed by the smell: "A little rotten seaweed and fish, a great deal of dirt, tomatoes and paprikas frying in oil, sardines roasting over charcoal fires, garlic, overripe figs, grapemust. tar and pitch from the boats, cheap Virginia tobacco, richly overflowing gutters, and fishing nets hung out to dry. And over and above all, like a dominating undertone, the salt freshness...