Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell them about it before they read it in the newspapers. Later, he went on television with a brisk, 21-minute announcement: Some 400 marines had landed on the island; arrangements were being made to evacuate Americans and other nationals who asked to leave. The next day, as the pitch of battle rose, the President sent in more marines, plus paratroopers from Fort Bragg; by week's end reinforcements brought the total of U.S. fighting...
...ball, pausing for tea and calisthenics every half-hour or so. "These Chinese," marveled Japan's former World Champion Ichiro Ogimura, "play basketball and volleyball and do special exercises. They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...
...high volume has brought several major companies into the stereotape market, is increasing pressure for standardization. RCA Victor, which will record tapes for Ford, has selected a cartridge system developed by Wichita's Lear Jet Corp., recently demonstrated it in Manhattan to 40 other recording companies in a pitch for adoption of an industry standard. On the strength of Ford orders, Lear has set up a separate division in Detroit to manufacture its tapes and cartridges. Motorola, which is building the dashboard players for Ford, is already working on the next stage of cartridge stereo-tape development: a home...
...fifth inning produced Dartmouth's fourth and fifth runs, Scott's departure, and a little comedy. Dartmouth's Bill Bower led off with a triple, immediately followed by that second wild pitch. There was a walk, another single--and then an interesting encounter at first base...
...qualified to judge this movie's accuracy, and I accept his judgment. Clearly The Cool World is more worthwhile than I thought it was. My point about Shirley Clarke's imagination is that the way she presented her story led me to distrust its accuracy: She was making a pitch, and she injected symptoms of social malfunction in an almost rhetorical way; the foggy soundtrack and sloppy camerawork were clearly meant to give the movie a documentary veneer; she didn't tell enough about Duke or anyone else in the movie to make them convincing as individuals. My point about...