Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bond started at mid field, slipped off one Yale forward, dodged another with a fake pitch and tripped up a third with a graceful stutter step before slipping a pass to hooker Tom Grady, who ran the ball...
...with the same hard-driving efficiency that marked his business success. Dozens of college-age volunteers, many recruited by his two daughters, Sue, 18, and Kathy, 21, gave the campaign a populist image, while substantial financial support came from associates in the insurance business. Most important, his almost messianic pitch that efficient business-type management could shave $25 million from Maine's state budget was convincing enough to gain him a 40% plurality in the polls (compared with Democrat George Mitchell's 37% and Republican James Erwin...
NORMAN D'AMOURS. Trustbusting was the main pitch of D' Amours, who looks younger than his 37 years. He won a New Hampshire seat, in a district with a big Republican registration edge, by hammering at economic issues. A former city and state prosecutor as well as an assistant state attorney general, D'Amours vowed to apply his legal skills' to "bust up the big oil companies" and the "giant corporations." He ran a low-budget campaign, downplaying his Democratic ties in edging out Chevrolet-Cadillac Dealer David Banks. He won despite the opposition of William...
Though he's gained 739 yards rushing in four years (averaging 5.2 yards per run) Plunkett prefers not to run with the ball. "I don't mind running on the option play, but would rather pitch out," he says. "I can't do it 10 or 15 times a game. I'd rather not take that kind of punishment...
...plate at Jordanian Premier and Foreign Minister Zaid Rifai. At week's end the foreign ministers voted 19 to 1 to adopt a resolution co-sponsored by Syria and Egypt that would strip King Hussein of sovereignty over the West Bank. Hussein was expected to make a determined pitch to dissuade the heads of state from ratifying the resolution, and there was a possibility that Jordan might pull out of the conference altogether...