Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman admits privately what he would not dare say publicly, i.e., that Ezra Benson is indeed on the right tack. If the Republicans really wanted to defend moral right over political expediency, they could take just such a campaign stand this fall. Perhaps, for so open and honest a pitch, they might lose congressional seats this year. But for the majority of U.S. taxpayers, both on farms and in the city, they would make it clear that the Democrats, and not the Republicans, are the party in favor of perpetrating the scandal...
...undersigned contacted the French community leaders requesting suggestions for a debater taking the French Government's side. The French found themselves unable to fill this request, saying that no French representative would wish to debate with rebels at the same table and also doubting whether, at the present high pitch of emotions, such debate would serve any useful educational purpose besides provoking recriminations...
...charge of the week and of the upcoming campaign was that Republicans had rocked the U.S. with an economic decline. Unanimously, the Democratic National Committee voted to view the decline henceforth as no recession, but a fullscale, vote-shaking depression. Harking back to an effective 1932 Democratic pitch, the committee accused the Eisenhower Administration of a "Hooverlike" approach to the business downturn. And when his turn came to make a speech, Harry Truman, in a self-styled "spasm," played on depression fears in every give'em-hell...
Once before in his career, Johnnie underwent surgery to clear up the deafness he developed in his teens. In January, on the second try, surgery worked, restored much of the hearing in his left ear. In the old hearing-aid days, Johnnie was unsure of rhythm and pitch, developed a habit of sliding into his notes. With his hearing restored, he promptly became panicky. "That first night," he says, "I was a nervous wreck. After my first show I rushed backstage and said to the other guys: 'O.K., now tell me I wasn't singing flat.' They...
...Seattle, radio was preparing to launch a new campaign-against TV. Inspired by TV's experiments with subliminal perception, enterprising radio station KOL planned to use TV's own secret-pitch technique as its weapon. This week, behind the playing of some of its 40 hit disks, KOL will murmur some insidious suggestions: "TV is a crashing bore," "Goodness, isn't TV dull?" and "Those TV westerns are all the same." Planned but scissored at the last minute: "TV gives you eye cancer." Says a KOL executive: "These jazzy little radio subliminals may not take anybody...