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Word: pitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best of all, watch Titanic Thompson repeatedly succeed against all odds. He tosses a walnut over a three-story building. He drives a golf ball 400 yards. He shoots a live rat in a pitch black basement. Of course, Thompson has things rigged so that none of his "propositions" were really against the odds...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

Ryan completed two of his next four passes to bring the Elis to their 37 yard-line. But Troy Jenkins fumbled on a pitch out on first and 10 and Yale was sunk...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Ryan's Long Resume Missing One Item | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...begins as hot reckless sex in the back seat of a limo and climaxes in death and betrayal. No Way Out keeps escalating past passion into mortal power struggles, in which the guilty are forever eliminating the slightly less guilty. But the film rescores, in melodrama's high pitch, the lament of any bright woman with a healthy carnal appetite: Why do men insist that you be either Donna Reed or Donna Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...Holy Cross players) were. His play-by-play went something like this: "Okay, there's a hand-off to a Harvard back, he cuts, gets a couple yards, and is brought down by a host of Cross tacklers. Okay, second down and a bunch now, there's a pitch wide right to...and so, no, he's met by a gang of tacklers, and loses a few yards...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: 'Ready, You're on the Air' | 11/12/1987 | See Source »

After the next play--a run up the middle--was negated by a penalty, the Cross elected to try a halfback option pass. Lockbaum, the Cross' Heisman Trophy candidate, raced right with a Wiley pitch and then hit Crusader tight end Randy Pedro in the endzone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crossed Up | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

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