Word: pitching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clever plays and stories-for many tastes, rather too smooth and clever. Now, with his war experience to draw upon, Shaw has thrown all his energy and talent into an ambitious novel. As one of the Broadway characters of a Shaw story might say, this is his "big pitch." The sad news is that he has failed; his novel is depressing evidence of how hard it is for a writer to slough off youthful habits...
...Crimson's biggest enemy may turn out to be the weatherman. Rain fell all yesterday in Ithaca. A slippery ball would affect Valpey's long centers, pitch-outs, and triple handoffs much more than Lefty James' simpler T-formation ball-handling. However, the latest weather information says only scattered clouds...
...bored and doubtful, to translate votes on a poll into votes in the ballot box. Above all, it was the great chance for any politician to get out where he could see and be seen, where he could make friends and influence voters, where he could work his political pitch at the grassroots level...
Nevertheless, the U.N. was not yet a museum piece. In the midst of crisis, the shrillest pitch of crisis in its history, the U.N. focused the world's attention. The measure of its weakness was that U.N. could not even protect its own mediator, Count Bernadotte, from terrorist murder. The measure of its strength was that every nation, including Russia, took U.N. seriously enough to maneuver vigorously to win its approval or, at least, to evade its disapproval...
...sixth, the rain started again. In the ninth, the ball was slippery, and Barney was pressing. With the count three-and-two, the first batter swung at a pitch up around his neck. The second Giant popped a mile-high fly to First Baseman Gil Hodges, who wiped the rain from his face and caught it. Then Whitey Lockman, who had hit three home runs off Barney earlier in the season, stepped up. He got a piece of the ball, but it fouled off near the Dodger dugout. Looking up into the lights, Catcher Bruce Edwards thought he was "seeing...