Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sculley, in what amounted at times to a sales pitch for his company's new machine, also cited the company's marketing campaign--which amounted to more than $100 million--as integral to the Macintosh's success...
...Birmingham the rule is: Be friendly, warm and helpful. When a Yankee visitor wonders what the local cornbread tastes like, several regulars offer to go home right that very minute and start baking some up for an early-morning delivery. The crowd has reached full pitch, chorusing stanzas celebrating happy American vistas-I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover-and heartbreak-The Way We Were-and bittersweet hope. After all these years, I Could Have Danced All Night still prompts the certainty that Someday My Prince Will Come, perhaps no later than Tomorrow, and from then...
...involved 22 players, two coaching staffs and more than a thousand fans. This was the story of an athletic contest, a men's soccer game between Columbia and Harvard, which ended 90 minutes after it began, and which saw some of its protagonists--those from Columbia--leave the pitch happy because they had scored three goals, and the others-from Harvard-leaving not to happy because they hadn't scored...
Although the play became more and more concentrated in the Crimson half of the pitch, Harvard did come close in the 53rd, the 57th and the 68th minutes, when Lion 'keeper Jeff Micheli saved from Catliff with panther-like quickness, often from point-blank range...
...stickwomen had trouble adjusting to the field at Durham, Mabrey said. While the Crimson is used to playing on a smooth, slow field, the pitch at UNH is "fast and bumpy," the Harvard coach said...