Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's slums this summer. In cities as disparate as Tampa, Fla., and Prattville, Ala., Cincinnati and Los Angeles, fire bombs flared and mobs coursed the streets. Store fronts were smashed by looters, and the flames of riot blazed intermittently-but they never reached the roaring pitch of a Watts or a Harlem, a Chicago or a Hough. In most of the cities, cool tactics by police and city governments kept the flare-ups from becoming "the fire next time," and proved once again that riot is as much a state of mind as of mayhem...
...expects to buy another 50 million from the U.S. It is also constructing a plant in Kerala that will produce 270 million contraceptives a year by 1970. To make sure that all Indians get the message, the government will launch a nationwide "use condoms" advertising campaign. Making a pitch for the lucrative contract is another capitalistic enterprise-the U.S.'s J. Walter Thompson Co. (see U.S. BUSINESS). Explained one family-planning official: "We want the condom to be as well advertised as Coca-Cola...
...manner in which each person uses his articulators (tongue, teeth, lips, soft palate and jaw muscles), Kersta says, it is highly improbable that any two voices can be identical. Thus, voiceprints, like fingerprints, can be used to make a positive identification. Whispering, muffling the voice, changing its pitch, or even mimicking another voice will not alter the basic voiceprint pattern...
First there is the search for a level patch of ground, then the epic struggle to pitch the tent. After that, the traditional U.S. camper eats out of cans, bathes in an icy stream, and strangles in his clammy sleeping bag-all the while fending off the onslaughts of hungry bears and raccoons and innumerable species of creepy crawly insects...
...have a lot of sympathy with nen whose consciences will not allow them to go. But to be quite honest, I can't raise my conscience to that pitch of sensitivity. I believe that the state has a right to ask military service of its citizens," he said at the weekly Memorial Church service...