Word: pitching
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...with any other life-threatening illness, will tell you what it does to their hearing. They put it in different ways, but what it comes down to is that the most ordinary conversation can cut like a knife. To begin with, the present tense has a whole new pitch. When you don't know how long you have, the simple words "I am" are enough to remind you of the unbearable lightness of being. With the past tense the problem is that you catch yourself saying, "I was..." and feel the tip of the wing of the angel of death...
...front runner for days, only to falter when Democrats showed even less enthusiasm for him than Republicans did. Mitchell may also owe his eclipse to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who went to his friend Bill just when the deal seemed done to make a strong pitch for Richard Holbrooke, the ambitious architect of the Dayton accords. Clinton didn't care that Holbrooke would break a lot of careers and egos over at Foggy Bottom, but he knew that Lake and Holbrooke despised each other and would be constantly sniping. Meanwhile, women's groups, incensed at a remark leaked...
...protesters also visited the office of the Acting Director of Dining Services, Lenny Condenzio, to make a pitch for parmesan in person...
...Democrats won, they succeeded by presenting themselves as politicians who had learned a lesson and were less ambitious to extend government than before 1994. In a North Carolina district adjoining Funderburk's, Democrat David Price won back the House seat he had lost in 1994 largely by making that pitch. Noting that so-called control of the House is a matter of a few votes, Price said, "both parties have now been burned by overreacting. People are hungry for more practical and less ideological leadership. What that should mean is that whatever party is in control will have to pursue...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The Republican Party will be an enduring majority only if it can pitch its message to a lot of people who have not traditionally been comfortable with [us]...We cannot be the party of privilege...