Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spend 82 days away from his law practice. "Annoying business, but necessary, "he says. "I dare say it may become a bit more hairy along the border now that the talks between Smith and Nkomo have broken down. But our chappies can cope with the terrorists. We all pitch in to preserve what we have here." He gestures with his glass toward the pool and the house. "You outsiders are forever comparing us to passengers on the Titanic. Well, if you're right, at least we'll go down first class...
...same time, new agencies like the seven-year-old Scali, McCabe, Sloves are zooming to the forefront with a tough-minded style that stresses product features. The agency and its principals-Ed McCabe and Marvin Sloves-pitch for Volvo and have brought the brand name to the poultry business with fabulously successful ads for Perdue chickens. They feature a squeaky-voiced Frank Perdue telling consumers with mock solemnity that it "takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" and insisting that his birds are more pampered than the people who eat them...
Exeter jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first on four walks, an error, and a single. Harvard scraped together four runs in the second, aided by two walks, an error, and a wild pitch...
...Werly pick-off throw to second then found its unkind way into the outfield, and the hometowners were in front, 2-0. Next on the agenda was a wild pitch by Werly, and the count went to 3-0. Two more walks later, Penn was on the verge of making it a first-inning blowout, but Werly wriggled free. Temporarily...
George Foster has been around professional baseball for a while and knows how to gear himself for each new season. "I relaxed over the winter," Foster said. But even then, baseball is still on his mind. "I think about particular pitchers and how they pitch to me." But once he gets down to Tampa, Foster says, he works on "all facets of the game" as well as conditioning his hands, wrists and arms...