Word: pitches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just a two-pitch pitcher," Woodfork said. "You know, fastball-curveball, and if we faced him 20 times over the season we'd be fine. He just pitched a smart game, didn't make any mistakes and we weren't aggressive...
...mayor in pre-Castro Cuba would not occur to someone sitting opposite her on the subway. Yet as a character endowed with romantic yearnings, she is hard to ignore. Hijuelos' episodic format doesn't quite gel. But that is more than offset by his emotional fine tuning and pitch-perfect prose...
...Pitch...
Surroi is a realist about the deal and the prospect for pinning down rebel support. But he thinks he has a pitch that can work. "This is not an agreement to form an independent state of Kosovo," he says. "[But] it is a historic opportunity for Albanians. It will be the most dramatic change Kosovo has ever seen...
After five years as a construction site manager at Samsung, Chung Hwan Oak was more used to giving orders than taking them. So making sales calls for his new catering business turned out to be particularly hard on his pride. After bowing deeply, Chung, 49, would pitch his hot-pot lunches -- steaming vegetables seasoned with shrimps and fiery pepper sauce -- then explain how he'd lost his job at the giant conglomerate. Often people just slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew what was behind...