Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emotional characteristics when attached to a loudspeaker, and they tend to call the circuits "characters.'' One expresses anger. Another they call Chloe, because it sounds to them like the lost swamp girl. Some express themselves in a kind of melody, or at least in a series of pitch changes. To provide a sound accompaniment to a film scene, the Barrons kept altering circuits until one expressed what they were looking for. Then they combined it with others, recorded the resulting series of sounds on tape, and edited it to fit. They refuse to consider their compositions music, partly...
...harm than good. Turnover on the Milan exchange, fifth most important in the world (after New York, London, Paris, Zürich), had shrunk from last year's daily average of 3,000,000 shares to 300,000 before the strike. Although Italian industry is humming at record pitch, the value of stocks listed on the Milan board has been sliced one-third (to 2 trillion lire) since the tax measure was passed by the Chamber of Deputies last December; blue-chip Fiat stock, for example, skidded from 1,845 lire to 1,083 when the strike started...
Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last week ceremoniously founded a Third Force political movement for Colombia, the only country in South America that has preserved until now the once-standard two-party system. As Rojas explained it, the Third Force will make no pitch for support from the "odious politicians" and the "oligarchs" of the historic Liberal and Conservative Parties. Rather it will stand, like the old Peronista Party in Argentina, on two legs: labor and the army...
Their use of the gag technique in Parliament will weigh against the Liberals in the next election campaign. The opposition parties, sounding off at a steadily rising pitch against U.S. financial control of Canadian industry, will belabor the government for its support of Trans-Canada. But if Alberta gas is gushing through to Winnipeg this year, the government will be able to point to a notable industrial asset gained, and to argue that the end justified the means...
...with the general maturing of the old grad, a conspicuous weakening of the concept of Class solidarity. Consequently, Class agents and other apostles of the ancien regime, finding that the "good old '28" ploy doesn't work so well any more, have had to look around for a new pitch...