Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mezzo-soprano Mary Devenport was a disappointment. Her German was garbled and her voice murky, sounding more and more constricted as it rose in pitch. Her singing was four-square and monotonous, and she had the deplorable habit of sliding from high to low notes. The best one can say for her is that she has a fairly rich and well-controlled lower register...
...sort of sharp escalation early next year to give the illusion that peace is on the way. But it is unlikely that the nation, as a whole, would buy such a performance. It is the Republicans who are exploiting Mr. Johnson's real vulnerability and if their purposely ambiguous pitch for peace sways a majority, they might even begin to think of non-military steps...
...championship touch football game, Winthrop scored at will against Yale's Jonathan Edwards College. Mel Craig put the Puritans on the scoreboard early in the first quarter on a pass from Fritz Hobbs. Minutes later, Hobbs took a quick pitch from stubby Walter Horak and galloped in for six more points...
...would like to propose a deal to you and your like-minded colleagues in the Harvard Administration. If the undergraduates agree to respect the personal freedom of travelling salesmen making a Harvard pitch, is it remotely possible that you might respect the depth of concern which leads intelligent and conscientious students to protest a course of policy probably unsurpassed in our history for folly and futility? Arthur Schlesinger...
...concrete box from a waiting truck-trailer and swung it high over the construction site beside the San Antonio River. Ever so delicately, Crane Operator Gene Smith steadied the massive shell against the push of the wind; every gust was countered by radioed adjustments in the pitch of a helicopter tail rotor mounted on the lifting rig. With directional help from a magnetic compass, Smith gently stacked each concrete box atop an identical unit, to which it was sealed with more concrete. Seventy-two times last week, a guest room was thus lofted into place around the 21-story elevator...