Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poverty Pitch. Applying profit-and-loss logic along with his hand-and flag-waving, Johnson implored the businessmen to join his war on poverty: "The poverty of other people is already a mounting burden. How much? You are now paying $4 billion a year for public assistance. You are now paying $8 billion a year for police and health and fire departments. The costs are high, and they are going higher and higher. Unless you attack the causes of poverty itself, you are going to be shoveling it out to the tax eaters instead of producing and training taxpayers...
...test of King Lear, and he does. In a role which demands an incomparably exhausting range of emotions, Seltzer manages them all. From the first scene, an unlikely, impossible beginning, his Lear was "every inch a king." In that scene he made the mythology work, starting at a tremendous pitch and moving past it. Lear roars, cries, whispers, laughs, almost dances, often stumbles, always touches; he moves convincingly from what someone has called worldly authority to spiritual authority, and in the last great scene he creates compassion, just as earlier he had created energy...
...back of Ratkowski, Cornell has some pretty fair hitters. Shortstop Tony deLaurentis leads the league with a .522 average and third baseman George Norman is .407 on the season. Behind the plate for the Red is one Jim Konstanty, whose father used to pitch relief for the Philadelphia Phillies' "Whis Kids...
...third inning began auspiciously enough, with Bill Brasail graciously making the first out. But then the roof fell in. Holy Cross shortstop John Wendelken's single was followed in quick succession by a double, a wild pitch, a walk, and a single, giving the Crusaders a 2-0 lead...
Signs of trouble appeared early. The Crusaders tagged Andy Luther for two solid hits in each of the first two innings, but the tough senior managed to pitch his way out of both situations...