Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corey scandal was only a pitch-forkful beside the mountainous scandal of the U.S. farm surplus program, which encourages people to take advantage of it. "The sad part of the whole thing," commented an Oregon agricultural expert last week, "is that all Corey was doing was what the rest of the grain trade is doing legally. It's obvious that there's something wrong when three men can rent a warehouse and make $83,000 apiece in three years by storing Government grain...
...Little Favor. At the Maughmer home, things sometimes reached a high pitch. She called the marriage "sheer hell." He denounced her for assuming the "leadership role." But divorce seemed out of the question. After all, bad publicity might spoil the two Maughmer careers...
...covering the Los Angeles convention created "ugly chaos where nothing was visible except their own drawn, pale, bleating faces." complained The New Yorker last week. As the sessions wore on, the reporters "became increasingly clownish, aggressive, sarcastic and self-important. The harassment of the politicians reached an obscene pitch...
...squeeze: tightening government regulation and the tensing of public opinion, which objects to the trend toward young TV and radio performers as both an esthetic annoyance and a violation of Mexico's child labor law. The consensus is that the piping of all the lisping little pitch people will soon be dialed out, and that Janette Arceo will retire to her farm for a while. A recently passed law requires all radio and television announcers in Mexico to hold a high school diploma...
...first "blues" album (actually more pop than blues), Farrell displays many of the qualities that shine forth on the concert stage: the easy flexibility, the tonal purity, the subtle sense of pitch that enables her to put her voice within the heart of every tone. The selections scarcely call for her full power, but they summon humor, a swinging beat and dramatic conviction. As Farrell alternately becomes the raucously betrayed woman (Blues In the Night), the languorous lady of experience (Old Devil Moon), the world-weary floozy (Ten Cents a Dance), even the weariest lines emerge fresh and endlessly inventive...