Word: pitch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have 90% of the [aviation] market would be hostile to anything that would not keep it this way." French newspapers and magazines picked up the conspiracy theme-with hysterical abandon. Paris Match, for example, last week breathlessly exposed "The Plot Against Concorde." With French opinion whipped to fever pitch as the Port Authority's deadline neared, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush, who supports the Concorde, considered bolting the steel shutters on the embassy's windows in case of violence...
...think if the members of this body were to take the vows of poverty, abolish our offices, abandon our homes and pitch pup tents on the Capitol lawn, we'd still be criticized for something-maybe for walking on the grass...
...need to see a physician, given certain symptoms, the handbook also stresses that too much doctoring is as bad as too little: "If the disease is comparatively minor, and the symptoms are minor, it is better to try to get by without medication." Above all, it makes a strong pitch for physical fitness, endorsing everything from swimming to sex: "The body is far more likely to rust out than wear out; the more it is used the better it will function." The same might be said of Symptoms...
...deafness had more lasting reper-cussions on the conduct of baseball. The hand signals used by umpires to indicate whether a pitch is a strike or a ball actually originated with Hoy. Since he could neither hear nor speak, umpires began to signal as a matter of course...
...objectives in mind. Publicly, he has stressed the need for a dramatic pitch to hold the disgruntled lower and middle classes in the conservative-to-center fold. Without a concerted "anti-collectivist" campaign, he has warned with a note of alarm over the past year, the petite bourgeoisie will give the Socialist-Communist coalition the seats in the National Assembly it needs in the 1978 elections to control government initiatives...