Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, Dole's remarks were an unmistakable pitch to the culturally conservative wing of the Republican Party, which will have a lot to say about who becomes the next G.O.P. presidential candidate. Dan Quayle, their favorite son, never entered the race. Pat Buchanan, their guilty pleasure, is probably too extreme to be elected. Even before it turned out that he once invested in an R-rated film, Phil Gramm of Texas had left them cold. Until recently, so had Dole, who never showed much interest in the politics of virtue before the Christian right emerged as a power bloc...
...Reeves obviously feels that it's safe to run on his own merits, [and] so I don't know why [other city councillors] can't run on their own merits, seek out their own constituents and make a pitch on their positions and issues." one city official who spoke on condition of anonymity said in February...
...must redouble the efforts of our alumni,our faculty and our staff in order to make as gooda pitch as possible that [Harvard] is critical tothe success of America in the 21st century," Rowesaid.U.S. Rep JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II (D-Mass...
...pitch black evening the night before Thanksgiving in the middle of World War II, A dozen Radcliffe students traveled to a military base in a remote area on the coast of Massachusetts to entertain troops watching for enemy submarines...
...forum was devoted to the mythology of the "called shot" in the 1932 World Series, an incident in which Ruth allegedly pointed to the bleachers to announce the home run he promptly hit on the next pitch. "Ancient Olympus" came up in passing...