Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Precisely what impact the whole argument will have on the mass of America's 20 million Negroes is something else. A rally in Indianola, along the march route last week, proved only that the mob is most susceptible to the last pitch it has heard. Addressing the crowd there, S.N.C.C. Field Secretary Charles McLaurin advised, "When people say, 'What do you want?' don't say 'freedom!' Say 'black power!' " Then McLaurin shouted, "What do you want?" Yelled the crowd: "Black power!" Minutes later, Ralph Abernathy turned up and asked the crowd, "What...
...Purcellville Volunteer Fire Department carnival parade, which he threatened to leave unless given a seat in the lead car. He got his way. And he is dropping in on teas and barbecues. At one such gathering last week, Smith sipped ice water and gave his usual folksy, good-humored pitch. "I have no speech," he told 25 people in a mosquito-ridden Alexandria backyard. "I'm going to conduct the same campaign as usual. I don't believe in the vilification of my opponent. But don't believe everything you read in the newspapers, certainly not everything...
...Twisting. Unfortunately for that slow and easy philosophy, reunification fever is at a higher pitch in West Germany today than at any time since the war. Triggered by the proposed Red-neraustausch (speakers' exchange) between West German Social Democrats and East German Communists tentatively set for July 14, the fever was further heated by Christian Democrat Rainer Barzel's sweeping proposals for reunification in his "Unity Day" speech in New York (TIME, June 24). Barzel's concessions for reunification included leaving Soviet troops within a reconstituted Germany as a protection of Soviet interests in the "northern tier...
...gave every villager a sense of participation. Old women went to work constructing punji sticks and booby traps for protective barriers around the village. Teen-age boys manned klaxon alarms. Should they sound at night, the women were taught to gather in the center of the village with flaring pitch torches, while the men held back in the shadows with their guns to ambush Viet Cong intruders. Last March a small Viet Cong propaganda team came, and nearly every villager went to his assigned post. The Reds asked who the leaders were. No one would talk to them...
Basic Needs. Vitamin-and mineral-fortified foods will have to adhere strictly to the rules. They must not be promoted in any way as effective for the treatment or prevention of any disease; also outlawed from now on is any sales pitch depending on the argument that ordinary foods will not supply adequate nutrition, or that much of the U.S. population is suffering from vitamin or mineral deficiencies...