Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to say when you have a 40-point lead. Last week, with that lead thinning in New Hampshire, he pretended to regret blowing off a G.O.P. candidates' forum, but no one believed him. The other candidates are getting the message. At the forum, when Steve Forbes made his pitch for votes, he said, "I would beg you." Then he corrected himself: "I ask for your support...
This is the dress rehearsal, but so far nothing seems ready. The scene is unclothed, the lights are out, the curtains malcoordinated. And yet as the tensed wrist of the harpsichordist travels across the tuning pegs, as the organ's pitch is finally affixed, as each musician is gathered into place, one senses that the real setting of this opera is here fully assembled...
...arrived with them to oversee their installation and playing. He is vividly described by Mason Hammond in a 1936 document preserved in the Harvard University Library. Saradjeff was supposed to be a genius of ringing--a tortured but prolific composer of carillons with an ear tuned to the exact pitch of bronze. His face had been horribly disfigured during the war. He spoke no English and had a history of epilepsy. Without delay Saradjeff retired to the basement of J and K entries to tune the smaller bells, a cacophonous process involving endless tapping and filing. For weeks he wandered...
During a game against the Army Air Forces, Joe DiMaggio sent a Patkin pitch into the night. As DiMaggio trotted around the bases, Patkin, on the spur of the moment, decided to follow him and mimic...
That isn't an ad for a 12-step program for workaholics. It's an act of employer desperation. Steve Loegering, president and CEO of Loegering Manufacturing, ran the pitch to attract workers to his firm in Casselton, N.D., 20 miles west of Fargo, in what Loegering jokingly labels the state's "tropical corner...