Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first International Oceanographic Congress, some 500 of them prepared to read scientific papers. During the two weeks of sessions every aspect of the oceans was scheduled for a full going-over, from the microscopic diatoms that float near the sunny surface to the mysterious cracks and bulges on the pitch-black bottom...
...order." Her son might have realized it too, had he possessed only that measure of insanity normal to a bloodline transmitted for generations through the marriage of brother and sister. But when the priests of Amon, in the traditional coronation ceremony, pushed the new Pharaoh alone into the pitch-dark holy of holies and touched him with the dry hands of a jointed wooden idol, the royal mind snapped...
...queues of customers logjammed the aisles of supermarkets behind silent cash registers, while clerks frantically tried to add up their checks with old-fashioned pencil and paper. When police ordered evacuation of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, 200 patients easily felt their way out of the pitch-black building, leading their helpless doctors and nurses...
Things got so bad during the season that the Murphys were getting anonymous phone calls from adults. "They wanted to know what we meant by letting our boy pitch like that," says Murph's mother. "They said he was too big to throw at their boys." The son of an oil wholesaler who was once a semi-pro pitcher, Murph himself explains: "I just throw as hard as I can. I figure if I let up, someone might hit it." And being hit is the one thing Murph has not been able to stand since he pitched his first...
Whatever the critics think, Actor Laughton is convinced that his is Shakespeare's true Lear. With his wife, Elsa Lanchester, he studied the play in a facsimile of the First Folio all last winter, finally concluded that the author had scored it like music. Voice inflections, pitch, rhythms, everything seemed indicated by what would otherwise be pointless punctuation and irrational typography. "Elsa noticed it first, and I think she was the first to treat it that way. But it works! It works! Shakespeare tells you how to say every word...