Word: pitch
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Some programmable phones can now memorize up to 100 numbers, so that users can dial just one or two digits to make a call. Unmanned automatic models can dial a list of other phones and play a recorded sales pitch or other messages. A new, memory-equipped phone from Colonial Data Technologies dials a call when the name of the person desired is spelled on its keyboard...
From the Harvard goal line, Graney faked a pitch to a teammate and dove into the endzone for the four points...
...position precisely, a wide-eyed college star on the cusp of the big leagues, anticipating a few Triple-A weeks in the light early season before a fifth starter is summoned. Searcy admits, "The first time I faced Darrell Evans in an intrasquad game, I just couldn't pitch to him. But these guys aren't gods. I can get them out. I'll do anything to prove...
...baby to safety. "I saw one man climbing up seats with a small baby in his teeth," he recounted. "It was unbelievable." Cardwell had been trying to break through a window to escape when the man with the baby came up along with two other children. "It was pitch dark and freezing cold," he said. "We took turns rubbing the baby to keep it warm." Finally a helicopter dropped them a line, pulled up the man and child and took them to the hospital...
Reagan described the games from a room in Des Moines. An accomplice with a wire set hooked up to Wrigley Field handed him slips of paper after each pitch: "double," "strike, inside corner," "foul ball". It was Reagan's job--and particle of talent--to fill in the rest. Then, later that night, listeners tuned into Reagan's analysis of the day's events--events he had created in his own mind...