Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This pitch may be harder to sell than to say. It has, in fact, been the refusal of many Democrats to go along with his program that has frustrated his hopes...
...creeping puncture weed that straggles haphazardly across most of the western U.S. The puncture weed's burrlike seeds can flatten bicycle tires, foul up cotton-picking machinery, rip through horsehide and gouge cattle. Humans get stabbed by the burrs when they garden, walk barefoot or when they pitch in to a harvest. Even the puncture weed's scientific name, Tribulus terrestris-"earthly bed of spikes," takes account of the tribulations it causes...
Surveying this new integrity pitch, the Macon News concluded in an editorial: "The miracle is that everyone who remembers the Griffin administration's shenanigans didn't fall right down laughing ... In some far-off limbo where old politicians go when they die, Jim Curley, the ex-mayor of Boston who was once elected while serving a jail sentence, must have nodded his head in admiration at the colossal gall of Marvin Griffin...
...Moscow in 1958 set up shop in the business of getting boys and girls into 13 top medical and technical institutes for fees running from $1,600 to $18,870. To find clients, who mostly came from Georgia, Pkhaladze hired agents on a commission basis or made a direct pitch by longdistance phone. In Moscow he organized a ring of bright students to take his clients' entrance exams. The ringers were experts at passing just well enough to attract no attention; they got $2.88 a day plus an $11 bonus for each test. As an added service, Pkhaladze supplied...
...some time in the Herald city room. There was no nonsense, of course, about starting from the bottom. When he was 26, his father retired, and he took over-not so much by settling down to hard work as by stirring the Herald to his own pitch of capriciousness. As he was to do throughout his lifetime, he hired and fired people according to whimsey, and terrorized staffers with a system of office spies (called "White Mice" by their victims...