Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judge is also at home on water. Once Lyndon developed a craving for a cruise up the narrow, treacherous Llano River on a winter night so pitch-dark that Moursund stepped right off the end of the pier into hip-deep water. Yet A. W. took the wheel of the cruiser, while Lyndon unconcernedly ate shrimp in the cabin below. Said Johnson: "He'll get us there. I wouldn't trust anybody else...
...artery had become blocked, possibly by fatty deposits, under the shoul der, where muscle and bone crowd it. Ford's well-developed muscles and his pitching profession aggravated the block: every time he threw a pitch, his muscles and bones would pinch the artery, constricting the vessel even as it was straining to allow blood to pass through. The most promising therapy would be removal of the sympathetic nerves that control the contraction of smooth muscle in the arterial walls...
...depths of disaster, the big pitch of the party consensus was to remove not only Barry Goldwater but all of his henchmen from any position of power in the Republican hierarchy...
Conference Pitch. Night was falling as Chou and his six-man entourage arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. With him was Liu Shao-chi, China's President. In the flare of flashbulbs, Chou's face appeared hard and unyielding. Significantly, he was greeted by only half of Russia's new diarchy, an equally sour-faced Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There were no bear hugs for Chou, though Kosygin did bring a bouquet of flowers. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev stayed home, possibly to show that Russia was not overeager and to keep the visit a formal matter...
...offense went back to work in the third quarter. Zimmerman threw to Don Sadoski for 20 yards, then tossed a 10-year touchdown strike to Lord. Princeton scored to make it 14-8, but a Zimmerman pitch to Bob Hoffman gave Harvard a 12-point edge...