Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J. ranch. There were red bandanas with Texas-shaped clasps for the guests, a tour of the ranch and a historical pageant known as a "Texas Fandangle"-border-country Spanglish for fandango, the frenetic Mexican dance. Lyndon used the weekend to give his guests a high-pressured pitch for San Antonio's 1968 "Hemis-Fair...
...McCandlish, the mainstay of last year's staff, twisted ligaments in his pitching shoulder playing catch with a medicine ball. He attempted to pitch in a practice game Saturday, but Harvard coach Norm "Swampfox" Sheperd says "he just didn't feel comfortable." Sheperd had been counting on McCandlish to win "at least a half-dozen games." It is now doubtful that the fast-balling senior will see any more action...
...tree on fine spring nights and hasn't a single human friend in the world. She goes to camp hoping to find a few, but of course finds herself instead. A ragtag regiment of girls from eleven to 13, led by captains and lieutenants of 16 or so, pitch camp for two weeks on the Isle of Wight. They leave half their supplies behind on the boat, neglect to put the kettle on for tea; on the second morning, all that is left to feed the whole Brownie troop is eight slices of toast. In the brief pauses between...
Change of Tactics. Peking issued pleas to China's 500 million peasants to make certain that spring planting gets under way, and the army was ordered to pitch in and help down on the farm. After nine months' holiday, nearly all primary and some secondary schools were reopened. Skilled government and party workers were being restored to their jobs and to official favor. Above all, as a Central Committee directive made plain, the new theme was unity, specifically a "threeway alliance" among the army, the Red Guards and the party cadres. In one Kweichow cotton mill, reported...
...Harvard, he spent most of a half-hour looking at the floor, occasionally gesturing weakly with his hands. Questions about American policy simply don't excite the U.N. Ambassador -- he just returns the line one expects in those tired, dull, even-paced tones. Never a smile; the same pitch all the time...