Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dung & Skull Juice. "To drain off his blood they put cupping glasses to his shoulders, scarified his flesh and tapped his veins. Then they cut off his hair and laid blisters on the scalp, and on the soles of his feet they applied plasters of pitch and pigeon dung. To remove the humors from his brain they blew hellebores up his nostrils and set him sneezing. To make him sick they poured antimony and sulphate of zinc down his throat. To clear his bowels they gave him strong purgatives and a brisk succession of clysters. To allay his convulsions they...
...serious letters seeking information, asking for subcontracts, or jobs on Project MOLE. Eager enthusiasts called by phone. "They wouldn't let us explain what was going on," says Monahan helplessly. "They'd make sure they'd got the right company, -and then go into their sales pitch." One company insisted on being hired to build the launching pad (or sinking site). "One thing it proves," says Monahan, "is that engineers can be awfully gullible. One reason we did this was to lampoon the engineers. I don't think anybody can be more pompous than the engineers...
...shifts in Peking's Quemoy policy too much to swallow. Only two months ago millions of Chinese students and workers were whipped into a synthetic fenzy of rage at "U.S. invasion" of Quemoy and the other offshore islands (TIME. Sept. 22). Scarcely had these demonstrations reached the proper pitch of hysteria when Peking did an about-face, proclaimed first a cease-fire and then its present senseless policy of shelling Quemoy only on alternate days, as if to show that if Red China could not take the islands, it could kill innocent people on them at will. "Some Communists...
...cost McCall's a 13.6% drop in ad sales for the first nine months, twice the average loss for the top 20 general magazines. One thing seems certain: after last week, no McCall's staffer will be able to keep a straight face when he plays the pitch of Togetherness...
...nine sections are settings of surrealistic poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed, coupled with the wide intervals and the high register of the instruments makes the specific pitch of each note difficult to grasp. This is also the case with Stockhausen, as Robert Craft points out: "For example, we hear a high, loud, staccato note in the oboe; that it is high, loud, staccato, and played by an oboe are factors of almost as great importance as whether...