Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks resulted from comments made by Tiant earlier this week, when he stated that he wouldn't pitch this year unless he got a raise and an extension on his contract. Tiant has been working out at Brookline High School...
...long lines of Chassler's dance move with a consistently high level of energy, except for the pauses, this intensity never lessens. Although an ending is signaled by a slight falling-off from the high pitch. It's this constant flow of energy which gives Chassler's dance its characteristic quality-- the looseness, the spontaniety, the feel of the everyday almost to the point of banality...
Nikolais constructs a work by stacking image on image, punctuating them with black-outs and pauses, until he synthesizes an intensity and at that high pitch ends the piece. His music scores work in the same way: a section of steady pulsing is followed by a roaring din and then perhaps a split-second of splintering tones. Nikolais's scores don't stand on their own as compositions for electronic instruments, yet they work well for his theater...
Regardless of the pitch, the doctors who do most of the prescribing are positive that within the past few years, women are leaving the pill in increasing numbers for the diaphragm. Dr. Pengwynne Blevins, who perhaps sees more students about birth control than any other internist, says she can't give a percentage, but she thinks people are "turning away from the pill. Women are changing their views. The diaphragm is gaining acceptance," she says. Louis C. Brown, another internist, concurs, saying "there is an increasing move away from the pill" to the diaphragm and other methods...
...point of emphasizing the more respectable traits of his rural constituents. "Georgians are conservatives," he later explained, "and I told them that conservatism and racism are not the same thing. We talked about the positive aspects of conservatism: the opposition to big government; the flag, patriotism. We made that pitch hundreds of times. This gave me a rapport with the voters, and it did not remind them or make them think of past deficiencies...