Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there is the matter of the bouquet. Very early in the film Adela is given one by her fiancé as he welcomes her to Chandrapore. Very late in the film, the throbbing engines of a ship bearing Mrs. Moore homeward take on the tone and pitch of the cave's echo, and she dies. When she is buried at sea, an anonymous passenger throws a bouquet like Adela's into the water as the body slides under the waves. Echoes, echoes...
Brushing off suggestions from top aides that he should begin by proposing some symbolic cuts, Weinberger went to a White House meeting on Monday and sat quietly through a belt-tightening pitch by the President. He assured Reagan that his department would take another look at its budget figures and "come in with suggested cuts." But once Reagan was out of the room, Weinberger tangled with David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, in what one participant called a heated exchange...
...Hello, Banana? Change money?" That sales pitch, unusually direct for China, was routinely delivered last week by jeans-clad youths outside Peking's Jianguo Hotel. The bananas, mostly imported from Ecuador, were the vendors' customary, and legal, merchandise. The offer to trade currency was neither normal nor legal-especially since the trade was 150 Chinese renminbi for 100 of the foreign-exchange certificates issued to non-Chinese that are officially valued...
...learned a lot from our loss last year," Grottkau added "We [this year's senior class] had never lost a meet before. We realized we had to renew our committment and push harder; everybody had to pitch...
...quite invested in the idea that the world and education are for men and taught by men," she adds, explaining why the annual pitch to alumnae begins by reminding them that "Women are first and foremost at the college [Radcliffe...