Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...righthanded fast-baller (wearing a CAN'T MISS tag), Armstrong arrived at the Reds' camp this spring full of enthusiasm and good deeds. "I've waited 22 years for an opportunity to pitch in the major leagues," he says, meaning he must have been contemplating it at the age of one. "He'd run through that wall if you asked him to," smiles Manager Pete Rose, who has finished running through walls himself. But Jack Armstrong will probably begin the season in the minors, in some small and scrubby place appropriate to bright starts...
...aspect of Jackson's populism is not imitated by others -- certainly not by Gephardt with his xenophobic pitch. Jackson can establish emotional ties with the troubled, with dispossessed farmers, striking workers, the sick and the elderly. This empathy with white misfortune was the surprise in Iowa, where his flamboyant gentleness disarmed farmers and won improbable allies. More than any other candidate, he sends people away from his speeches happy, proud that they are somebody...
...describe the set: "There are all these holes for the uh, er, puppet. Holes in the couch, holes in the bed, holes in the floor. Trapdoors everywhere. It looks like a family of gophers live there." Together, we've concocted this great cover story. Supposedly Fusco came to pitch the idea of an alien moving in on a nice, normal family and driving them crazy with his rudeness and irresponsibility -- whaddaya want, we had to spice it up, it's entertainment -- and the NBC guys were nodding off because the idea was too, like, subtle for them. So Fusco reached...
...baseball, at least, if the pitcher on team "A" throws at a batter on team "B", he should expect a pitch at his head the next time he is at bat. The same code of conduct would apply more or less to hockey...
Inman-Ebel punches a keyboard and reports that another client's pitch rises 78% of the time, suggesting a lack of authority and self-assurance. With a tape recorder between them, they practice troublesome words...