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Word: pitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the play opens at high pitch with a big confrontation scene between Bolingbroke and Mowbray, Basehart admirably conveys how ill-suited Richard is to be king: he slouches in his chair, popping grapes down his gullet and chatting with retainers, while paying scant attention to the dispute he is supposed to adjudicate...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Eighth Stratford Summer Season Opens With Adept Production Of "Richard II" | 7/2/1962 | See Source »

...Wills needed no urging. Drawing a walk, he streaked for second on the first pitch, skidded in safely on his belly a split second before the Colt catcher's throw. Three pitches later, he stole third as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Base Thief | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Munich gossip persisted that there was far more to the affair. Vera's parties, it was said, included a clever "murder game" based on the crime. The rumors rose to such a pitch that Munich authorities finally exhumed Dr. Praun's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Tall, Cool Blonde | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Radcliffe was having a change of the guard that symbolized a new era of Harvard-Radcliffe relations that affected the Class in many6Senior TOM BOONE swings around left and on a pitch-out in the first quarter of the Nov. 11 game with Princeton. Boone led the Crimson in individual rushing that day with 56 yards in the 9-7 victory over the Tigers. The Harvard squad went on to defeat Brown and Yale for the Ivy League championship in a great year for sports fans at the University...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Satellites, Program For Harvard Shaped Destiny of Class of 1962 | 6/13/1962 | See Source »

...analogy with the grace that this one musters. Miss Cross, who began her career here as a choreographer, has blocked this production like a ballet. Her most apt pupil, David Gullette (Feste) capers and leaps about in endless motion. He and Adrienne Harris (Maria) continually struck just the right pitch of lightness...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Twelfth Night | 6/11/1962 | See Source »

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