Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this bald itinerary is all the romance that Forster and his generation felt for northern Italy. It summons the glory days when the English commandeered the Continent as if it were a feral cricket pitch and great novelists wrote about gentry who were slow to realize that Italy held in its heart secrets beyond their grasp...
...order to court independent voters. Bush waited until the G.O.P. convention in August 1988 to cut the Reagan link. Within weeks, he had the race sewn up. Bush is gambling that voters will wait until the fall to make up their mind, so why show Americans his best pitch until then...
Third inning. He storms to the mound, throws his arms out to the side, gears up for delivery. Checks out the fans, waiting for the right moment. Now he winds up, and now the pitch. The audience gasps as the thing soars. It hits the wall...
...feel really privileged to have worked with these two tremendous groups of players," Pitch said. "When I started in the fall, I couldn't have created a better ending...
...walk a week in any direction and not see a person or cross a road," says Ulvang. He's not being figurative. Every September, Ulvang and his two brothers set off from home and walk for a solid 14 hours in one direction or another. At dusk they pitch a base camp, and for the next week they roam the wilderness hunting ptarmigans...