Word: pivotally
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...Army game was the pivot. From then on, the varsity played exciting, if not razzle-dazzle football. This was one of the encouraging things the 1951 squad did for Harvard football. It came up from fiat on its back to put on hard-played, crowd-pleasing shows the rest of the year, even if it did not win every game. The Crimson lost to Princeton, for example, by a greater margin than to Cornell. Yet the Tigers' victory seemed much less of a rout than the loss...
Robert Cohen, center of a strong Eliot line, seems to have the pivot post on Closed's team. Dudley Fennel, however, another good middleman, will play a good deal, and could even start...
...eight o'clock at night till I was subconscious." The boss stifled Jimmy's attempts to be a comedian; he didn't like piano players who tried to be funny. But the comedian could not be stifled for long. In the early '20s Durante became pivot man in a wild comedy trio he formed with Cakewalker Eddie Jackson and Soft-Shoe Dancer Lou Clayton. They "cut up millions of dollars" in the next decade and, says Clayton, never needed a written agreement to cover the division of the spoils...
...began the "fight for peace." The Cominform called it "the pivot of the entire activity of the Communist Parties." The cry of peace could oppose the keeping of U.S. troops in Europe; it could stir up workers by blaming low wages and high prices on rearmament programs; it could prey on mothers whose sons must fight, on men of God who hated war, on the indifferent and the despairing, on the timid who feared that arming for self-defense was provocative...