Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scoreless contest until the top of the third inning, which opened with Jimmy Thomas ground out to second base. Tufts starter George Champion issued Ed Durso a free pass to first base, and the next Crimson batter, Leigh Hogan, singled Durso to third Durso scored on a wild pitch...
...Force hastily dispatched a C-5A Galaxy cargo plane-and it crashed (see page 8). The tragedy only intensified the fever pitch of rescue plans, and the Government pledged to carry on its airlift. Tens of thousands of Americans deluged adoption agencies with calls. The State Department set up a toll-free number (800-368-1180) for would-be adopters. At one point, more than 1,000 callers a minute were being turned away by busy signals...
...story of the Duval duchy began in 1911 when three Mexican Americans were gunned down in San Diego by a gang of Anglos opposed to the town's incorporation under Chicano control. Ethnic conflict reached a high pitch. Alone among the area's "Americans" to champion the Mexicans' po sition was George's father Archie Parr, a small-time rancher. For years thereafter, the Mexicans - who still make up 90% of the population of Duval and surrounding counties - honored Parr as their cacique. Parr saw to it that roads were built, local government jobs were manufactured...
...back and you've only got about a 25-yd.-wide landing strip to have a clean second shot at the green. Jack Nicklaus uses a one-iron here for accuracy, but I'd rather take a chance with the driver and leave myself a pitch with the wedge rather than a seven-or eight-iron approach. On the green there's only 35 ft. between the front and back traps, so you've got to put some teeth on the ball. Bob Jones once saw Nicklaus wedge his second shot two feet from...
...allow medieval man and woman to speak for themselves through selections from past journals, songs, even account books. With Gallic condescension, Peter of Blois, for example, wrote home about the wine served by King Henry II of England. It was, sneered Peter, "thick, greasy, stale, flat and smacking of pitch...