Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plus the lunch, could only mean he was being fired. As soon as he got sore, Bowles proved to be no pushover. With familiar Madison Avenue skill, he and his pals leaked a spate of stories on the sinister plot to send him into exile. Their catchy, if misleading pitch: "It will be a curious result if the first head to roll after the Cuban affair is the head of the man who opposed...
Furthermore, men do almost all the talking. And Shakespeare has let them harangue at high pitch and at great length. They rant and sermonize; they like to say things twice, and to explore abstractions. Shakespeare also overloads their speech with lots of heavy Latinate words and forms that he never uses anywhere again: orgulous, corresponsive, conflux, tortive, insisture, oppugnancy, propugnation, assubjugate, unplausive, rejoindure, embrasures, commixtion, deceptious, constringed, concupy...
...Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin mazurka, he fainted dead away. In the early days Columbia slipped commercials in between the musical selections on its cylinders, forcing the listener who bought the Chirp, Chirp polka to endure a sales pitch for men's overcoats. Columbia, also in those early days, considered the phonograph to be a potential boon to the illiterate. Instead of giving themselves away in writing, suggested Columbia, people could record their messages on a cylinder and ship it through the mails, thus avoiding "disclosure of their educational...
...Hoyt Wilhelm went to the mound, four Negro batsmen pushed across two runs to win the game before anybody was out. Milwaukee's Hank Aaron lashed a pinch single to center. Mays doubled him home. After Wil helm hit Cincinnati's Frank Robinson with a pitch. Clemente lined a sharp single to right, and Willie Mays jogged across the plate. It was the third straight All-Star victory for the National League -and a good reason for the American League to recruit more Negro talent...
...Game. The key to Ford's record this year is work-lots of it. Before the season began, squarejawed, tobacco-chewing Manager Ralph Houk asked Ford if he wanted to pitch every four days. Whitey said he did. "It's good for him," says Houk. "I just hope it keeps up." Says Whitey, the father of three: "I've talked to guys who said when they got to be 32 and 33, they had to bear down harder. I'm 32." The big test should come in the heat of August, which melts 10 Ibs. from...