Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planned to refuse all interviews because he wanted to keep the day "personal, just between me and the folks who have been with me for 16 years." But in the pitch-black darkness he talks about how the past seven months have changed him. A man who always thought he spent a lot of time with his kids found out "I really hadn't. I knew I had reached a new level with them when after a month with me at home they cried, 'Oh, no, Dad, not Ragu again!' " About his run for the presidency, he says, "It just...
...perhaps more like sport. "The Bible says, 'Ask and you shall receive,' " notes Brown, 35, and he has taken the injunction to heart, especially when fortified with a few shots of cheap vodka and beer ("When I'm sober, I have my pride"). He cannily tailors his pitch to his victims. "I can tell right off if they'll give me money," he says. "If they look like they might halfway give me something, then I run a sympathy line on them. If they look like they won't, then I give them a worse sympathy line...
...activity violates the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which outlawed the use of all poison gases, but never forbade their production and stockpiling. More stringent precautions might have been advised, given the lengthy and sordid history of chemical warfare. Use of deadly fumes dates back to the Peloponnesian War, when tar pitch and sulfur were mixed to produce a suffocating gas. Twenty-three centuries later, chemical weaponry emerged as the ugly stepchild of the modern chemical industry. The great nations of Europe decided that such weapons were barbaric and outlawed them in the Hague Convention...
...paid its last respects to the past that has made it so great. Day games at Wrigley have now joined the Ghosts of Baseball Past. Ghosts that call each other "Babe" and "Dizzy," carry bats the size of Redwood trees, smother balls in Vaseline, spit and lard, pitch both games of a doubleheader (what's that?) and take the subway for a World Series game against cross-town rivals...
AFTER new Bosox hurler Mike Boddicker struck out Paul Molitor on a pitch that jitter-bugged its way across the plate and after Kevin Romine made a catch that could rival the Say Hey Kid's, I was hooked for the afternoon. By the eighth inning, I joined the Fenway faithful in a standing ovation for Boddicker. By the last out of the game, I was up on my feet...