Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

The CPC series was pitched against other home computers primarily used to play video games and enjoyed a strong supply of game software.

* GF — Games finished: number of games pitched where player was the final pitcher for his team as a relief pitcher

* GS — Starts: number of games pitched where player was the first pitcher for his team

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

In 1957, the term was first defined as someone with fewer than 75 at bats or 45 innings pitched in any previous Major League season.

This guideline was later amended to 90 at bats, 45 innings pitched, or 45 days on a Major League roster before September 1 of the previous year.

The current standard of 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched or 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club ( excluding time in military service or on the disabled list ) before September 1 was adopted in 1971.

This was a dual subjective and objective test, and one deliberately pitched at a higher level.

Neagle went 19 – 23 in three years with the Rockies ; he was injured in 2003 and never pitched in the majors again before the Rockies released him after the 2004 season.

Since 1881, pitchers had pitched within a " box " whose front line was from home base, and since 1887 they had been compelled to toe the back line of the box when delivering the ball.

This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

For nineteen consecutive years, from 1891 through 1909, Cy Young was in his leagues ' top ten for innings pitched ; in fourteen of the seasons, he was in the top five.

It was there that Young had pitched the first game of the 1903 World Series, as well as the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

She had signed with Monument Records in late 1965, where she was initially pitched as a bubblegum pop singer, earning only one national-chart single, " Happy, Happy Birthday Baby ", which did not crack the Billboard Hot 100.

The show was pitched directly to the UK's Hat Trick Productions and Channel 4 by the duo, contrary to rumours that RTÉ ( the Irish national broadcaster ) were originally offered the series but rejected it.

Fabius was well aware of the military superiority of the Carthaginians, and so Fabius refused to meet Hannibal in a pitched battle.

In pitched battles that were too complex for his relatively inexperienced men, Washington was defeated.

And, unlike her first disco hits, the track was not pitched up to make it faster and to render Gaynor's recorded voice in a higher register than that in which she actually sang.

In 1996, he was a writer and co-creator of the show Space Cases, a Nickelodeon television show with themes similar to Lost in Space.

The first successful permanent theatre showing nothing but films was " The Nickelodeon ", which was opened in Pittsburgh in 1905.

The series was later shown in reruns on Nickelodeon in the 1980s and on the Sci Fi Channel in the 1990s as part of Sci Fi Cartoon Quest.

* An alternate ending of an episode of the show Invader Zim was taken off since it featured a scene where all of New York is destroyed, Nickelodeon acted quickly and changed the ending.

On October 21, 2009 it was announced that cable channel Nickelodeon ( a subsidiary of Viacom ) had purchased all of Mirage's rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property.

Noggin soon after became a timeshare service ( in the same vein as Nickelodeon is by carrying Nick at Nite over the same channel space ) starting the teen-oriented The N that fall, which became a separate channel from Noggin on December 31, 2007 with Noggin becoming a 24-hour channel for preschoolers ; the Noggin channel was rebranded Nick Jr. on September 28, 2009.

To date, Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon is the longest-airing animated series on the network that was not a Nicktoon.

After production ended in 1990, the show continued in reruns on Nickelodeon through 1994 when it was replaced with the similarly-themed All That.

Over the next few years, the ratings gradually declined in Canada ( by 1985, it was seen only once a week in a Saturday-morning time slot on CTV ), but YCDTOTV continued to go strong in the U. S. on Nickelodeon, where it aired first five times a week and, eventually, every day.

Viewers in the U. S. made slime and water sounds with their mouths and sending in their own entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be slimed ( which was later replicated by Canada's YTV, with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes ).

Another Price production using YCDTOTV cast members, UFO Kidnapped, had been made in 1983 but failed to sell to Nickelodeon and was never aired.

Reportedly, this was because Nickelodeon's six-year contract to air the 1981 season expired in 1987, and since Nickelodeon was beginning to aim for a younger demographic and many of the 1981 episodes dealt with topics more relevant to adolescents ( such as smoking, drugs, sexual equality, and peer pressure ); the network opted not to renew the contract.

Allegedly, Nickelodeon removed the " Cosmetics " episode from rotation for the latter reason as well ( although the " Addictions " episode from that same season was not dropped ).

Though ratings declined, Nickelodeon continued to air reruns until January 1994, at which point it was only being aired on weekends.

"), which was a frequent parting gift for contestants on Nick's popular game show Double Dare, where slime was heavily used along with several variations such as ' gak ' or ' gooze ', and Mattel even sold Nickelodeon slime and gak in the 1990s.

It was made into a 1996 film of the same name for Nickelodeon starring Michelle Trachtenberg.

In the animated Nickelodeon movie, TV show and TV spin-off of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, there was a character named Sheen Estevez, which is Sheen's original last name – Estévez – and working last name, Sheen.

* The book was featured in the last episode of season 4 " Dino checks out " in the Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold !.

In America, The series was called The Magic Carousel and it aired in the 1980s on Pinwheel, a children's programme on the kids ' channel Nickelodeon.

On September 16, 2002, the Vault Disney block was discontinued in favor of same-day repeats of the channel's original and off-network series, primarily to contribute to the network's then-upcoming " hip " image ; the removal of the block resulted in Disney Channel not featuring any programming targeted at adult audiences for the first time in the channel's history – with the only programming that intentionally targets the entire family being the channel's primetime feature films ; as of June 2011, Disney Channel is the only one of the largest American children's cable networks that does not target both kids during the daytime, and a family / adult audience at night ( Nickelodeon, The Hub and Cartoon Network each feature program blocks that target such a dual audience ).

" Nickelodeon was initially willing to greenlight 39 episodes of Junktown.

It was the first original animated special created for Nickelodeon.