Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quemoy cease-fire for another fortnight. "This is not a betrayal," Red China's local commanders felt it necessary to assure their troops in a special proclamation. "This is a racial righteousness. We must draw a clear-cut line between the Chinese and the Americans." The crude Communist pitch: to split Chinese Nationalists off from the U.S. But whatever Red China's reasons for cease-fire's extension, the first fact about Quemoy was that Red China, after 44 days of shelling, had failed to subdue a little island only seven miles from its shore...
...with $2. When he steals a bicycle, planning to sell it, it is in turn stolen from him by a rival gang. When he decides to throw away the last of his father's carefully instilled ideals and roll a drunk, Steely's childish anguish reaches its pitch-and Author Mayfield reaches for the help of the long hand of coincidence. Up to that point. The Long Night is a simple, touching story that fuses the night world of Harlem and the frenzied world of a child's fear...
...Pard) and Armour (Dash), who first hesitated out of fear that human customers might object, the market proved richer by the year. They stressed the idea of an unvarying diet with a single inclusive food (mostly beef-based, cereal-fortified), crusaded for better dog nutrition. They had an irrefutable pitch: dogs that once brought stags to bay need a different diet because they are now slothful city dwellers that ride in taxicabs, get taken to fancy French restaurants, loll around hot apartments watching television...
Live Longer. What helped the pitch was new special foods brewed by veterinarians such as Denver's Dr. Mark L. Morris, 67, who says that half the nation's dogs have kidney trouble caused by overeating, not of simple canine food but of rich people food not fit for a dog. In proof, Dr. Morris concocted special diets for Seeing Eye dogs, prolonged their lives as much as 30%, a boon to the blind, who no longer have to replace dogs as often. Dr. Morris' line of prescription foods now sustains almost 50,000 dogs, extends their...
Torre connected with Bob's third pitch and the ball sailed toward short right field with second baseman McDougald in full pursuit. For a split second it seemed it would fall safely for a hit. McDougald had it all the way, as it turned out, gloving the ball for the game-ending...