Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support the settlement in one-minute radio spots. Instead of belting out his top song, Take This Job and Shove It, he pushed the new contract by singing a few bars of Spread the Good News Around. Miller traveled through Appalachia, appealing to the locals and making a pitch on television. District presidents chorused their own praise of the pact over nine TV and 50 radio stations in all the regions where U.M.W. coal is mined...
...some first--half histrionics waiting in the wings, however. Hooft pumped in a solo jumper and Allen scored off a Konstantynowicz steal in quick succession to notch the game at 47-all with exactly a minute left in the half and raise the IAB crowd to a fever pitch...
...tell a story or illustrate music or mood or feeling. It does not even display a thoroughly developed abstract technique. As Cunningham himself has remarked, "dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise and fall of sound (music) or the pitch and cry of words (literary ideas). Its force of feeling lies in the physical image...
...traction problems came off the court--when the whole squad had to pitch in to shove the team van off an ice patch--but the truly stellar performance of the day came on the court, where the Crimson handled the Elis, considered one of the best teams in the nation, on their home court...
...scarcely the standard Peachtree promotion, but it was a sales pitch nonetheless?not for new industry but for federal funds. As chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board, a 13-state coalition established in 1971, Busbee has become a leader of the South's resistance to efforts by the depressed Northern states to shift federal spending programs from the Sunbelt to the Snowbelt. Explains a Policies Board official: "We have to defend our region." Indeed, precisely that mood is spawning an unmistakable increase in a kind of petulant, poorer-than-thou sectionalism in many parts...