Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...comeback campaign. As every railbird knew, there was no percentage in punishing a good horse to win $2,900 (winner's share of La Sorpresa) when there was a $100,000 plum in the offing. If Citation's tune-up had been a shade off pitch, he nevertheless remained the heavy favorite to run off with the $100.000 Santa Anita Handicap later this month. What did furrow some trackwise foreheads was how Miche had managed the surprise-even granted that he was an established stakes-class horse and Glisson had given him a perfect ride...
...oldtime religion hits a fever pitch in the summer, when thousands of Stanley dealers journey to Westfield for "jamborees." There they are worked into such a state by inspirational company songs and pep talks that women often burst into tears...
Owlish, talented little Dmitri Shostakovich, who intimately knows that a Russian composer must sing in tune with the Communist Party's harmonic scheme, last week gave faithful praise to the blower of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest pitch pipe: Joseph Stalin himself...