Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eden, 65, former British Prime Minister, of a mild anginal attack, on Barbados; Marshall Bridges, 31, star (8-4) relief pitcher for the New York Yankees last year, laid up with a .25-cal. slug from a lady's pistol in his left calf, following a barroom wild pitch, in Fort Lauderdale...
...smaller American "journals of opinion" have all made their pitch for Time-less readers. The New Leader is publishing communiques, albeit 10 days late, from New York Times correspondents, and The New Republic is running regular dispatches from its foreign reporters...
Flashing a familiar grin. Junior addressed audiences as "my friends," made a reminiscent pitch for Jack: ''He hates wah." Roosevelt also insinuated that Humphrey had dodged the draft in World War II (actually, Humphrey was involuntarily classified 4-F because of physical disabilities). Kennedy won the primary-and then Roosevelt publicly apologized to Humphrey...
...Davis, a Williams graduate, had been the best pitcher in intercollegiate baseball for three years. His record was strung with one and two hitters, and he was almost unbeatable. Later on that summer he was to join up with the Boston Braves for a short spell, and was to pitch nine innings of hitless ball against the Phillies, composed of such sluggers as Gabby Cravath, Fred Luderus and others, only to lose the game in the tenth inning...
...executive of the National Council of Churches, said flatly that "it is too late now for us to establish harmonious relationships between the races on a worldwide scale." In his prepared text, distributed but prudently omitted from the spoken version, Campbell claimed that racial hatred has reached such a pitch that "in our generation white children will be marched into gas chambers by dark-skinned masters, clutching their little toys to their breasts in. Auschwitz fashion." In the same mood, Episcopal Layman William Stringfellow gloomed that "the most practical thing to do now is weep...