Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply will not let us abdicate our responsibility to teach, to argue, and let's face it, at times to be unpopular. If the Faculty is to recover its nerve, its clarity about and confidence in espousing the few, central values of a university, the students may have to pitch in and help. I believe they will...
...public letdown. Even if there was no Machiavellian scheming, it was obvious that Nixon himself, perhaps unwittingly, had created a situation in which anything short of a dramatic announcement might lead to disappointment. But repeated White House warnings not to anticipate anything sensational finally managed to lower the pitch of public expectation...
Nixon's political pitch in New Jersey was a broader one, accenting Republican efforts to combat crime, improve transportation and check pollution. Campaigning for Republican William Cahill, Nixon did not stray outside friendly Bergen and Morris Counties. They gave him a 96,000-vote plurality over Hubert Humphrey last year, though he carried the state by only 61,000 votes (out of nearly 3,000,000). As in Virginia, the crowds were large, jubilant and overwhelmingly Republican...
...presidency, Herb Jaffe, a vice president of United Artists, turned the job down. Gregson Bautzer, the Los Angeles socialite lawyer who counts both Kerkorian and Aubrey among his clients, introduced the two men at the Beverly Hilton and recommended Aubrey for the job. Bautzer's sales pitch: "Jim Aubrey has a real good sense of smell about what the American public wants to buy for entertainment...
...subdivisions I worked were almost as horrifying as the Collier's sales pitch. There were flags everywhere-on poles, stuck on cars, even pasted to front doors. There were even more yapping dogs than there were flags. And at least three of the streets seemed to be named "Waco...