Word: linchpins
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Junior defenseman Noah Welch—another special teams linchpin without a power-play goal—said Pettit is doing an “unbelievable job” quarterbacking the unit...
...vehemence of the Democratic assault was astonishing. The AARP, formerly a linchpin of the liberal coalition, was trashed by various liberals as a den of insurance-peddling moneygrubbers. House Democrats told me that minority leader Pelosi was twisting arms with unprecedented avidity--anyone who voted in favor was "no longer a Democrat," and plum committee assignments would go only to loyalists. I suspect this reflects desperation as much as principle. The Bush Administration is outsmarting the Democrats at every turn. The economy seems to be recovering. If Iraq is stabilized--a huge if--what will the Democrats run on? Their...
...loss of the team’s leading scorer and offensive linchpin was an early, shocking end to what seemed a season of destiny...
Next to him, the major figure behind the Center was the great architect Raymond Hood, linchpin of the design team. Brilliant, charming and not infrequently pixilated, Hood was one of the pioneers in the transition from Gothic Revival and Beaux Arts skyscrapers to the sleek, mostly unadorned towers of the 1930s. Did Junior want his new buildings crowned with arcades, wreaths and maybe a nice pergola? You bet he did. But Hood, who died before the Center was completed, gave him, with the RCA Building, a modern masterpiece that Rockefeller never fully comprehended...
...true believers have long dreamed that all of Europe would one day become a single homeland. That sweet dream took some more hard knocks last week. First the Swedes - a reasonable people famously in favor of solidarity - resoundingly rejected the euro, which many see as the political and economic linchpin of a European homeland. That blow came as the week began. By the time it ended, Britain, France and Germany had failed to agree on a timetable for handing over authority in Iraq. And France and Germany had stoked anger among smaller states by again thumbing their noses...