Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COLD Friday morning, and still pitch black as about 120 students sat waiting and shivering on the steps of University Hall. Two or three out-of-tune guitar players strummed out Woodie Guthrie songs, while several even more out-of-tune voices harmonized them as best they could. Cups of hot chocolate appeared out of somewhere, and people sipped at them, huddled together in the dark and feeling proud, even exuberant over what they had achieved the night before--and for what they would accomplish the following...
...Department of Energy and the United Auto Workers, will begin with songs of praise to the rising sun in Maine and include talks and solar-power demonstrations in just about every state. In a speech at Golden, Colo., on Sun Day, President Carter plans to make a major policy pitch for solar energy and announce new incentives for the industry...
...When the next pitch does the same thing, he gets the idea that Dudley's pitcher might be trying to walk him intentionally, and turns red in the face. He was some kind of angry, and I can't say I blamed him. Even the British allowed George Washington to hit away...
...Ditto for pitch number three, and as Hendricks trots to first, the recipient of the first intentional walk in Harvard softball history, I hear him mutter under his breath, 'Now that wasn't very nice...
...never understand the mind of the baseball player, or the workings of a team, for that matter. How a squad can pitch one day and hit the next and do neither on the third. But luckily that's not important to us, and if it were, it wouldn't be nearly as important as the non-serious part of their world. Watch your step...