Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief pitch for funds at the end of his televised foreign policy speech on Sept. 30 brought in $300,000, or more than twice the cost of the network air time. A similar appeal in his speech on crime Oct. 12 also stimulated sizable mail contributions. Over-the-transom donations, averaging $3,000 a day just a few weeks ago, were averaging $35,000 a day last week...
Gatto took a pitch-out from Lalich and ripped over left tackle for ten yards. Then Hornblower, on three consecutive hand-offs from Lalich, moved Harvard to the Crimson...
...19th National Day of his republic since its exile to Taiwan. He and his advisers view Vanguard not only as a means of passing on Taiwan's own experiences in climbing from underdevelopment to economic independence, but also as an instrument to fight Communism. "Peking makes its pitch to governments amid polemics and promises that somehow never quite seem to turn out," says Yin Wei-Hang, director for African affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Taipei. "We go through the governments to the people. We go down in the mud with them. Of course, it improves government-to-government...
...world champions were winning in a walk. They had Detroit's Tigers down, three games to one, and St. Louis' peerless pitcher Bob Gibson had humiliated Detroit's 31-game winner, Denny McLain, not once, but twice. Relaxed and confident, Gibson was ready to pitch again, if necessary, in the best-of-seven Series...
...Brock unaccountably failed to slide under the high, late throw. He came in standing up, crashed into Catcher Bill Freehan and was tagged easily. The rally that might have ended the Series was snuffed out. Two innings later, Detroit scored three runs, and Lolich, growing stronger with each pitch, blanked the Cards the rest of the way for a 5-3 Detroit victory...