Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hung a pitch in the fifth to give up the home run," Irving, who took the loss to fall to 3-4, said. "It was one awful pitch. You usually can get away with one. It was just one of those days...
...imminent victory of the communists. In the distance, our jets were still flying cover, chased by tracer rounds." From the air, "I could see the DAO [defense attache office] headquarters [at Tan Son Nhut] burning in the distance. Yet the city itself had this unearthly calm. It was pitch black. No movement, no light, no sense of what was coming...
...property-tax caps and budget cutbacks, no child is entitled to much; these days state and local funding for education is stretched just to cover the basics. Class sizes are inching up; music, sports and other activities are being eliminated. In communities rich enough for parents to pitch in and pay for some of these "extras,'' there is an understandable impulse to do so. In the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, for example, the Parent Volunteer Association of the Joseph Sears primary school raised $92,000 last year to build a new playground. Similarly, a parent booster club at the Kenter...
...head of affiliate relations and is Murdoch's point man in Washington, immediately began using the victory to lure affiliates allied with the other networks. He launched his campaign in January 1994 at a national meeting of TV executives, where he operated three presentation rooms to make his pitch, generating contacts that led, he says, to Fox's winning over 50 more full-time and secondary affiliates. Now displayed at Padden's Washington office is a mock wanted poster featuring Padden's grinning face with nbc's logo in the lower left-hand corner. On this poster at least...
Harvard had trouble hitting that pitch Thursday. The hitters had to guess when it was coming, and for the most part they either were frozen at the plate and took called third strikes or they swung at bad pitches...