Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crucial Pivot. President Paz accused Communist Czechoslovakia of playing a major role in the riots, claimed evidence that the tin miners had been "armed with weapons made in Czechoslovakia." Denouncing "this interference in Bolivia's internal affairs," Paz immediately broke all relations and ordered the Czech diplomats home...
...crucial pivot that keeps him in or out of power will be the Bolivian army and his own armed followers. So long as they remain loyal, Paz will probably weather the storm. It is in the best interest of the hemisphere that he do so. He is an able economist of considerable vision; he has a deep appreciation of inter-American relations and the U.S. role in Latin American development. And he is probably the only man strong enough to hold together his seething land...
MARY LOU WILLIAMS (Mary) swung her way into bebop and then retired from jazz to devote herself to prayer and good works. After ten years' absence from the recording mike, she is back in good form as the pianistic pivot of several talented groups, among them the Howard Roberts Chorus, which sings her Black Christ of the Andes. As a hymn it is simple and moving, with cool kaleidoscopic harmonies, but its jazz superstructure seems to be an afterthought...
...Pivot." The battle lines for the Capes were sketched while George Washington was encamped in the Hudson Valley in even direr distress than at Valley Forge. Lord Cornwallis had taken Charleston and was moving up to fortify Yorktown...
...Washington recognized in 1780, command of the sea "was the pivot upon which everything turned." The British had that superiority, at least on paper. But the Royal Navy was rotten at the core. Its political admirals, mercilessly vignetted by Larrabee, were boneheads or worse...