Word: pitched
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That was not the only time Gore's pitch for force carried the day. In mid-1995, as a frustrated Clinton agonized over air strikes in Bosnia, Gore described photos of a Srebrenica woman who had hanged herself in despair and how they had haunted Gore's 21-year-old daughter. What Karenna Gore couldn't understand, the Vice President said, was why the U.S. was not doing more. At that moment the decision crystallized to make the U.S. bombing threat a real one. "We've got to try something," the President concluded. Giving war a chance helped push...
Even before last Monday's game, millions of U.S. fans wished their teams could land a Cuban like Livan or Orlando Hernandez, the brothers who helped pitch the Florida Marlins and New York Yankees to World Series crowns in 1997 and 1998. But that can happen only if players defect and leave their families behind, as the Hernandezes did: Livan through Mexico and Orlando by boat. None defected last week, even though U.S. sports agents were practically leaning over the rails waving contracts...
Diana Ross and Brandy. It sounds like the start of a movie pitch. Turns out, it's a pitch that worked: the two singers, one a legend and the other a Gen-Y sensation, are co-starring in the dramatic TV movie Double Platinum, airing this Sunday...
Those of you with internet access probably have read the blurbs on the Internet Movie Database about Ewan McGregor making light saber-esque buzzing noises during his battle scenes and about Natalie Portman's having to redub all her lines in postproduction because the pitch of her voice had changed during shooting...
With the O'Donnell field faithful on their feet and the Tigers hoping for one last ninthinning rally, the Harvard senior hurler reared back and got the Princeton rookie to strike out on a pitch in the dirt to give the Crimson its third consecutive Ancient Eight title...