Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Baruch, staring defiantly at his silent audience: "I do not fear Government taking its legitimate part in medicine, any more than I fear it in education or housing. ... I urge the doctors to get in and pitch-not stand by on the sidelines...
...soaked, raffish, turbulent Marseille, the largest seaport and the second city of France, resembles in many ways the San Francisco of Barbary Coast days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said...
Jeweled Anklets. London's papers did their best to keep the popular excitement at fever pitch by printing at least one new fact about the wedding every day. There was news of gifts, each one more fantastic than the last: a grand piano from the R.A.F.; a doily from Mohandas Gandhi, made of yarn spun by the old saint himself; 1,500 cans of lard from the residents of Eritrea; jeweled anklets and a statue of Siva from the Dominion of India; an ivory casket from Pakistan; a traveling bag made of elephants' ears from the women...
Chief Boston's eleven took advantage of the mild gale at its back to cross the Brown goal once in each of the first and third periods--first on a 31-yard pass from Miklos to pierce Leavitt, then on a short Miklos pitch to Jim Rossiter...
...throws what coaches call a "heavy ball." His passes are harder to handle than the "floaters" Benny Friedman used to pitch, but they are also harder for the other team to break...