Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baseball's oldest maxims holds that hitters can't pitch and pitchers can't hit. The New York Yankees' Babe Ruth was a magnificent exception, a star pitcher (lifetime record: 94-46) long before he became the greatest home-run hitter in history. One afternoon last week, the Yanks produced another rule breaker: Outfielder Rocky Colavito, 35, the former Cleveland Indian slugger (TIME cover, Aug. 24, 1959) recently signed by New York...
...Russians (exception: the American Communist Party, which sid ed with Moscow against the "creeping counterrevolution" in Prague). The Socialist Party leadership joined with prominent liberals to urge, along with Washington, that the U.N. demand an end to Soviet intervention. But con demnation of Russia scarcely reached the pitch that generally goes with condemnation of the U.S. in Viet...
...country's continuous unrest, Joseph II in 1781 granted an Edict of Toleration, an agreement that gave the people the right to speak their language and to have a measure of autonomy under Bohemian kings. A flowering of art and literature followed. Czech national feelings reached a high pitch in the 19th century, encouraged by a historian named Frantisek Palacky, who emphasized his people's identity by writing about their long struggle for freedom. "The Hussite war," Palacky wrote, "is the first war in history that was fought not for material interests but for intellectual ones?for ideals...
...wheedles. He stares ferretlike down his long nose, droning in a voice that sounds like a cross between a buzz saw and Bronx sneer. "Did you take a dive in the Clay fight?" he demands of Son ny Listen. Or as Muhammad Ali launches into his pitch for Muslimism, Cosell cuts in sharply: "Awright, we've been through that...
Seeing White. The Nixon people have been planning their fall campaign since June-with the basic outline going back as far as the summer of 1967-and the Republican strategy is now all but complete. In essence, the pitch will be to whites, with the Negro vote a very secondary consideration. "You can't build a campaign on Negro votes that you don't have and probaoly can't get," says a top Nixon strategist. "We're going after the middle-class Democratic urban voter, and the buttons you push there are Viet...