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...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...
This is not to detract from MacLean's accomplishment, for he most certainly has the knack, and he is both moving and horrifying. He makes excellent use of a stammer as a verbal pivot on which to make some of the many sudden changes of mood required of him. Furiously angry, he catches on a word, his hand moves to his mouth, and his assertiveness turns into fear. At other times he freezes for a moment, before delivering a pathetic non sequitur...
Speaking at a dinner meeting in the Union, Galbraith urged that education be made the "strategie pivot" of an all-out war on poverty along the lines proposed by President Johnson in his State of the Union Message...
...starting Crimson lineup will contain four returning lettermen. Only new face in the starting five will be sophomore forward, Barry Williams. Captain Bob Inman will fill the other forward position, and Mele McClung will serve as pivot. Leo Scully and Alan Bornheimer will take the backcourt for the Crimson...