Word: pitching
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Clearly, the days are gone when a Congressional hopeful could pose proudly in front of the Capitol and make a pitch to the folks back home. Nowadays such naivete is a certain recipe for defeat. Today's market-savvy slogans are: "Congress is more the problem than the solution; they're out of touch and we're out of patience" (Fred Thompson, the Republican challenger for Senate in Tennessee). Or, "The government is the most formidable enemy of all" (Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.). The Times reports that these attitudes have spread and are now continually validated by campaign advertising...
This quote comes to me from a book by Nick Hornby (an Englishman with a predilection for the Arsenal soccer club of north London) called Fever Pitch, a wonderful autobiography about a life of following one's favorite sport with the life-and-death passion of a trapeze artist...
...wonder, then, that many lobbying groups have poured a considerable amount of money into the campaign, even taking to the airwaves to pitch their support for a ballot question...
Every group but the IOP had multiple open houses, and, at each spot, prospective participants appeared to be getting a practiced, timeworn pitch...
...find we're quite old-fashioned," Barylski said. "We just make our pitch...