Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy manners. No one can hold us back. We know where we are going." Those were the campaign promises−despite little evidence to back up any one of them−that Prime Minister Michael Manley, 53, made to Jamaica's 860,000 voters. But Manley's pitch was apparently convincing enough. Last week the Prime Minister and his People's National Party (P.N.P.) returned to power with 48 of 60 seats in the newly expanded Jamaican parliament, gaining 58% of the popular vote. Now Manley may find that more than "heavy manners"−slang for discipline...
...eyes rather a fierce, buccaneering air, and fear mingled with my worship. I did not dare to go into the shop, unless my father was with me. It was a paradise of glue and pitch, of files and a vise, and heads in the rough, with a smell that still comes gratefully back to me. "God bless me," as Mr. Borthrup Trumbull (in "Middlemarch") remarked of the ham, "what an aroma...
...five guys are really going to have to pitch in," says Irion, who will have to do yeoman's duty hitting the boards even though he calls himself "not exactly a jumping six-seven...
...Morris, the winner of four British Opens, introduced the niblick for pitch shots. The great J. H. Taylor mastered the mashie or modern 5-iron which derived its name "from its effect on the ball when entrusted to unskillful hands...
...know I'm there." That was the pitch for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's TV spots, and it is the campaign pledge most certain to be kept. Making his presence felt has never been a problem for the blustery onetime bartender who lived in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, made his way to Harvard, became one of the nation's leading urbanologists, served four Presidents, and fulminated against the Arabs and the Third World as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Democrat Moynihan won over softspoken, engaging Republican-Conservative James Buckley, who leaves the Senate...