Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Legion's outgoing National Commander Paul Griffith gave the pitch to its convention in Manhattan (see Veterans) in a bristling statement: if the situation in Greece got worse, or if Greece were invaded, the U.S. should send troops. To the Legion, Chief of Staff General Dwight Eisenhower sounded a note of "critical urgency." The U.S., he said, must meet "any real threat [to peace] as it begins unmistakably to develop...
...seventh of Lahore, capital of the Punjab, had been destroyed. Scores of nearby towns and villages had been razed. War-or rather, competitive massacre-between Moslems and Sikhs had reached a pitch of horror that made the Indian Mutiny of 1857 look like a mere street brawl. In two weeks, between 40,000 and 150,000 people had been killed in the Punjab. Most of the bodies were too hacked and charred to be recognized. At least a million were homeless...
...furor over the new fashions rose to a fine, shrill pitch. Across the land, women by the hundreds-and city editors, too-flocked to the banners of resistance...
...chose to join the Jewish General Social-Democratic Union - known as the Jewish Bund. Though both re mained revolutionaries, from 1903 onward he opposed Lenin's methods. In 1917, thirteen days after Lenin's seizure of power, Zaslavsky's opposition twanged toward its angriest pitch : "Lenin has taken power to become the genuine autocrat of Russia. ... So far only the bourgeois press has been extinguished. . . ." Twenty-one days later: "In Petrograd the Bolsheviks are closing up the press with sadistic cruelty indeed." Thirty-three days later: "Preliminary censorship! All fools and scoundrels have protected themselves by this...
...make the boy spend more time at his books, but they forgot to take away his paints. So Leneman started smearing his inspirations directly on the canvas; daubing, lumping, clutching, rubbing and pinching to heighten the drama. Then, in Palestine and Paris, he brought finger-painting to a fine pitch. Later he taught art in Venezuela and U.S. Army hospitals...