Word: pitching
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...tendencies toward independence. China discovered that the U.S. would not let Taiwan be shoved around if it had done nothing wrong. Since then, Washington has indicated that it is not ready to help defend Taiwan if it opts for official independence but that it is likely to pitch in if China attacks without provocation...
...threads of fiction after his or her own fashion. One can barely tell when the tale spins from the story of the scientist to that of the assistant director and his cast A febrile reiteration of the word "soul mate" in myriad forms ("sole mate") reminds us of the pitch of Byers' anecdotes and how seriously he takes himself. An intriguing and feverish last passage asks agitatedly, "Where is your soul? Is it here?" as if prodding a criminal into revealing his hidey-hole. It's almost as if the author were ascertaining the location of the soul in order...
...recent survey, Burns asked advertising creative directors and corporate marketing executives which athletes they would most desire to pitch their wares. Gordon trailed only basketball deity Michael Jordan and golfers Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer. "Gordon came at the perfect time," notes Charlotte, N.C., Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler, "very similar to the mid-'50s for the PGA, when TV finally figured out how to televise a match and Arnold Palmer was sitting right there. Boom, it was all they needed...
...Short take: Allied POW's take on Germans on the soccer pitch. Moral: the foolishness of war, and that Pele is really cool. The movie features real players, real plays, and some great soccer at Colombes stadium in France -- just like the real thing! So enjoy some soccer where the good guys always win -- and CP promises a shiny new donkey to anyone who can prove his theory that the German captain threw the game as a gesture of peace and internationalism...
Pops. Sweet Papa Dip. Satchmo. He had perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. His improvised melodies and singing could be as lofty as a moon flight or as low-down as the blood drops of a street thug dying in the gutter. Like most of the great innovators in jazz, he was a small man. But the extent of his influence across jazz, across American music and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from...