Word: pitches
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Republican candidates than any Nixon lieutenant except Vice President Agnew, though he made it plain that ie disapproved of Agnew's style and of e Administration's get-tough political Pitch. Hickel said he preferred a positive campaign...
Above the howling wind and the driving rain, the villagers of Manpura Island could hear an unholy roar welling up from the Bay of Bengal. "It was pitch dark," said Abdul Jabbar last week, ''but suddenly I saw a gigantic, luminous crest heading toward our village." Jabbar managed to survive the lethal 120-m.p.h. cyclone and the 20-ft. tidal wave that followed, but most of his neighbors were less fortunate. All but 5,000 of Manpura Island's 30,000 people died in the surging waters. Most of the island's cattle, sheep, goats...
...women who went to the polls on Nov. 3 were wooed at a pitch and a price that surpassed any off-year election in history. The immense cost must seem too high in any rational ordering of America's priorities and resources. TIME correspondents across the U.S. and other election analysts estimate the total outlays for Senate, House and Governor races at $200 million, only a part of which will ever be reported. Exact figures will never be fully known. Seven states have no laws at all requiring political candidates to itemize the expenses of their campaigns...
...right, running up a 201-160 record (best year: 1927 with 26-15) over 17 seasons. But he is best known for that day in the 1932 World Series when the Babe, in response to a fan's heckling, pointed to the bleachers, then blasted a Root pitch over the centerfield stand to the cheers of 51,000 witnesses...
Though the defense usually came up with the big plays. it allowed the Bruins' running attack to roll up almost 300 yards. Gary Bonner and Tom Spotts consistently ground out yardage, and early in the final period, Bonner took a pitch out around left end and ran 38 yards into the end zone...