Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German banking house of Fugger. The art of business prediction has come a long way from its starry-eyed origins. But economists admit readily that their prognostications are still largely a matter of educated guesswork. And in the current uncertainty over the economic outlook, guesstimating fever has reached epidemic pitch. Says one topflight Washington economist: "We work by the seat of our pants more often than we like to admit...
Brainy, pretty Elizabeth Talmadge, 32, wife of Georgia's Senator-apparent Herman E. Talmadge, set up a pitch stand in an Atlanta department store, handed out succulent slices of Talmadge Ham to sample-minded passersby. A country girl who learned how to cure hams back on the farm, able Businesswoman Betty Talmadge started her enterprise to make pin money in 1952, last year reportedly peddled 62,000 hams, pinned down a whole-hog gross...
...Sama's citizens prepared to do battle. Then the Japanese played their ace. They introduced their leader, Yuko Maki, 62, a Tokyo manure dealer, who happened, by careful coincidence, to be just as devout a Buddhist as the Samians. Maki passed on all the gifts and made his pitch: as a Buddhist, his trek up Manaslu would be a pilgrimage, not a desecration. What's more, he was prepared to hire some porters right there in Sama. The expedition was permitted to proceed...
...Roberts' slowly growing collection of hot fans, his own success seems adequate denial of his own most cherished belief: that pitching is essentially a simple art. "Anything is simple to an artist," snorts Umpire Larry Goetz. "For the rest of us," echoes Outfielder Ashburn, "there must be more, or everybody would bat .400 and win 20 games a year." But Robin Roberts insists that it is all much simpler than that: "I've been given credit for stuff I don't do. I don't even divide people into the tough and easy...
...have to make a fantastic proposition out of anybody. I live and pitch by a few basic rules. You don't have to make a big study of batters beforehand. When I have good stuff I throw four fast balls out of five pitches. You can basically confuse yourself by typing each hitter or worrying too much about righthanders and lefthanders. I don't have any special trouble with lefthanders...