Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Play Tough. The Knicks are probably the best-balanced team ever to take the court, but Reed is the consistent leader. The immense (6 ft. 10 in., 240 Ibs.) pivot man tops the team in scoring (24.3 points per game) and rebounds (312), and is the key man in a defense that has allowed the opposition an average of only 101.1 points per game (the Knicks are averaging...
They of course are part of the very pivot of the play, coming as they do immediately after the Shepherd's incandescent words...
...came to the company only after training in the disciplines of classic ballet, whereupon they went on to unlearn many of its basics. Their movements forsake the glide-and-leap patterns of ballet in favor of a staccato stomping in which the heel, rather than the toe, becomes the pivot for the action. Unlike Russia's Moiseyev folk ballet, whose dancers' athletic leaps are relatively close to the virtuoso tradition of formal dance, the Folklorico's characteristic moments find the troupe bouncing in position like so many bright-colored jumping beans...
Schull, a springy pivot man from Florida State, bypassed an N.B.A. tryout three years ago to join the Phillips 66ers in the A.A.U. league. Then, at the end of last season, the Phillips team was disbanded...
...cases of black-market UNICEF milk, on the unlikely chance that the regular milk train will be derailed by revolutionary terrorists. Meanwhile, Fong becomes a political pingpong ball in a riotous contest between Chinese Communists and American agents, both of whom have somehow concluded that Fong is a pivot in the ideological struggle between East and West. Fong endures it all with the patience of a grinning Buddha: "As a carpenter he did not have to grin at all. As a grocer he found that he spent most of the day grinning. He would not have noticed it except that...