Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lefebvre has nominated Don Nelson to pitch for the visitors today. Nelson pitched a respectable nine innings against Army, allowing just two earned runs...
British TV's Christian pitch found its most notable defender in Princess Margaret's friend and adviser, the Rev. Michael Phipps, chaplain of Cambridge's Trinity College and religious adviser to commercial TV. "Religion," he said, "must go back to the marketplace, and that means, in 20th century terms, the TV set. Christ spent most of his life in the marketplace. You must proclaim where your voice can be heard...
Dealers were discovering that hoopla and hustle paid off. In St. Joseph. Mo., dealers reduced prices, had their salesmen call 17,000 listings in the phone book (their pitch: "You can save a lot of money if you buy now''). They sold 454 cars and trucks in nine days-almost twice as much as in the preceding three weeks. Akron dealers raffled off $100 a day among people who took trial drives in new cars, boosted sales by more than 50%. Philadelphia De Soto Dealer Harold B. Robinson promised buyers that they could postpone installment payments if laid...
...music, took the jest in earnest, sat down to write a piece which would test the "untapped melodic resources" of the drums. The technical problems, he discovered, were sizable. Examples: how to pass rapidly from one drum, fortissimo, to another, without the resonance of the first canceling out the pitch of the second (part of the solution was to use a medium-padded drumstick); how to allow the tympanist enough time between solo passages for retuning (the hot concert-hall lights tend to raise drum pitch, while the audience's body moisture in the air lowers...
...marred the festivities. Aging (30) Middleweight Champion Carmen Basilio and aged (37) ex-Champion Sugar Ray Robinson were so eager to clobber each other that they both kept swinging after the first round ended. By the time the referee got between them, everybody in the stadium seemed anxious to pitch...