Word: pivot
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Miss Johnson--everyone calls her Miss Johnson--is "generally acknowledged to be the pivot of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," Dean Rosovsky says. She is the archetypal power behind the throne. She came to Harvard in 1940 ("I hate to boast this," she says), just after she graduated from college, as a junior employee in the dean's office. Three years later, the secretary to the dean left, and she took over...
Junior Jeannie Guyton blazed the victory trail with the first score of the game early in the first quarter. That icebreaker ignited the double-pivot offense and established a Radcliffe lead which the cagers never surrendered...
...witted, cynical, slanderous libertine who bridges the gap between the aristocracy and the rabble. Wyman Pendleton imbues the aging counselor Escalus with warmth. And Alvah Stanley, with axe, rope and chains, is properly intimidating as the executioner Abhorson--a unique name that Shakespeare fashioned, in the manner of the pivot-word so common in Japanese poetry, by fusing 'abhor' and 'whoreson...
...Baloney," retorted Joyce "The Happy Hookslider" Heard, ace Crime second baseperson. "They threw that same Box Brastraps malarkey after we ran 'em off the court this winter," added Heard, whose pivot work was pivotal in the Crime's 23-2 overtime triumph on the hardwood over the Administration earlier this year...
...except for his occasional self-denigrating humor. The problem Van Buren gives him is a variation on a dusty science fiction device-he finds he can stop time at will for everyone in the world but himself. As far as the chapter goes, the time-fix is more a pivot for the neuroses of a neatly conceived anti-hero than any kind of crucial element itself, and the combination works well in an unpretentious way-well-enough that it seems too bad you can't start reading the second chapter when this one ends...