Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ASROC, developed by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. under the direction of the Naval Ordnance Test Station, can attack a submerged submarine almost as soon as it is detected by sonar. The boxlike launcher on the destroyer contains eight missiles. A digital computer, with superhuman speed, notes the roll, pitch, course and speed of the ship and the speed and direction of the wind...
...outside of Denver. On the greens, the 30-year-old Palmer had the same gentle touch that had brought him from behind in April to win the prestigious Masters, give him a big lead as the year's top money winner. Ready to turn Cherry Hills into a pitch-and-putt course, Palmer was a confident 4-1 favorite when the field of 150 amateurs and pros teed off last week in the 60th U.S. Open, the biggest tournament in golf...
Once the blood lust had been aroused to this pitch, the oath taker was easily led to kill his own father or mother, wife, child or master at Mau Mau command. And any local Mau Mau leader devising a fouler ritual was under obligation to pass along his recipe immediately to his less inventive colleagues. Since there were seven basic oaths, which could be taken over and over again, Mau Mau ceremonies thus became perpetual orgies. The result was that, when a Mau Mau convert did repent and vomit out his story to authorities, he sometimes ended by humbly asking...
...members of the Diet's Socialist minority solemnly vowed to resign en masse, a move that they hoped would simultaneously force immediate dissolution of the Diet and topple the government of Premier Nobusuke Kishi. To supplement these "parliamentary tactics," the Socialists screwed up to more frenzied pitch than ever their fortnight-old campaign of violent demonstrations against Kishi and the Eisenhower visit...
...Barber was pitching Class D ball down in Pensacola last year," says Richards. "Won seven and lost eleven. Temperamental kid. We told him if he could get hold of his temper he could make it with us, and he did. We knew Estrada had it. He won 14 and lost six at Vancouver last year. With all our kids, we develop a basic pitch they can get over when they have to with some stuff on it. Estrada's strike pitch is a fast ball that drops. Barber's is a slider. His fast ball moves around...