Word: pitching
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...creation of an Office of Management and Budget. Nixon also named him to the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Connally has found himself on the receiving end of numerous presidential summonses to stop by and chat. Mainly, Nixon used Connally as a sounding board on economic policy. The big Nixon pitch to Connally, ten days before the appointment was announced, came during a White House tête-à-tête. "I recognize I'm in trouble the way the country is now," Nixon reportedly told Connally. "My problem is the economy . . . I don't have anyone...
...season alone he accounted for 112 solo tackles and 45 assists. Weaver is regarded by many observers as the quickest man at his position. "Against any ordinary option," says U.S.C. Coach John McKay, "Charlie Weaver is the only man I know who can take both the quarterback and the pitch...
...realized what a fish it was, and what a feat it was to catch such a fish, and the poem broke over me like the rainbows that fill its last lines. I was thrilled by this poem that started so quietly, and yet could bring me to a pitch of emotion I had never before experienced in literature. I read it over and over, in wonder, and I am still reading it with the same sense of discovery. "The Fish" taught me my first lesson about the mysteries of poetry. For me, it will always be a mysterious, moving poem...
...fame unto that pitch so only...
...1970s man. Professional doubters, too, are a dime a dozen these days. But the special value of Cioran is that, with all his heart, he doubts even doubt itself. He is the man with no answers who tests everybody else's answers with a skepticism at the pitch of fanaticism. No age should be without such a man; no age needs more than...