Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With imperturbable mien, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov last week told Washington newsmen that he hoped the American press would treat Russia's national exhibition in the New York Coliseum this summer with "a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation." While the ambassador was making his pitch for fair play-which he would have got from the bulk of U.S. journalists without asking-the Soviet press was whipping up its severest attack since the Stalin era on life in the U.S. The new campaign was obviously the Soviet welcome to the six-week, $5,000,000 American National Exhibition...
...Face is content to be a relief pitcher, feels no strain when called in to pitch with the bases loaded. "I concentrate on the hitter," he explains. "There's nothing you can do about the runners. The guy with the stick in his hand is the only one that can hurt you. I just try to get the guys to hit the ball on the ground." Despite his slight build, Face has an apparently indestructible arm. In 1956 he relieved in nine straight games. His specialty is a "fork ball" that breaks crazily...
Then a garage mechanic hired him and taught him welding. It was his salvation. Using his new-found trade, he was able to pitch in with two other students, submitted a project that won the Beaux-Arts' first prize. Made to look like a fish on the outside (to satisfy the Beaux-Arts) and a tangle of nuts and bolts inside (to satisfy César), his piece was bought by France's Musée d'Art Moderne...
...over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River in a beery baritone. Here, felt Simone, was "the dream companion I had longed for since I was 15: he was the double in whom I found all my burning aspirations raised to the pitch of incandescence...
...varsity jumped away to a 2-0 lead in the very first inning. Al Martin was hit by a pitch and went to third when an Eli infielder muffed Chet Boulris' pop-fly. Rodgers then fetched both men home with a sharp single to left...