Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in the U.S., the President faces a Congress eager to take some kind of action on energy, but sadly confused as to what to do, and a bewildered and increasingly frightened public. Carter will surely make another strong pitch for a standby gasoline-rationing program and his windfall-profits tax on oil companies, to accompany the decontrol of domestic oil prices that he hopes will arrest the decline in U.S. oil output. That scarcely adds up to a sweeping program. Unhappily, the only group that seems to have a clear idea of how it wants to manage the energy...
ENOUGH OF SUBSTANCE: Lamont's style evolved from years of writing for that most homogenized of magazines, Time. Campus Shock is a Time cover story filled with water and wood pulp, a distended magazine article--the very titles wail with the self-justifying banshee pitch of the media-hyped Big Story: "Campus Shock," "Sexual Anarchy," "Grade Frenzy." And the vignettes, written in the best lurid style of not even Time, but True Detective...
...Attempting to reheat Last night's coffee, toast some raisin bread, We find our electricity gone dead. Now each his own conductor, and at more Than concert pitch, rips through his repertoire On the piano while the other races For towels and pots-no end of dripping places...
...Blodgett Pool to begin a tour of the Soldiers Field facilities. We had just come from Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard, where the committee had heard a group of student actors sing selections from a Gilbert & Sullivan show. The need for increased funding for the arts (i.e., the "pitch") preceded the entertainment...
...Name the only non-starter to pitch for the Orioles in their World Series sweep...