Word: pivoted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, for more than 1,500 years, a strife-ridden but never-quite-failing balance was maintained among China, India, the Roman-European West, and at the pivot point-the Middle East. All four had cultural traditions of their own; but technologies, crops, philosophies, military methods and art forms were traded back and forth, along with epidemic disease. Invasions of horse-riding nomads from the steppes were another recurring plague; but even the greatest barbarian onslaught, the Mongol explosion of the 13th century, was finally fought off or absorbed...
...fast-moving play, and Auerbach has what basketball men call the ''feel" of the game. He seems to know instinctively when a player starts to go sour, has a rare sixth sense for getting just the right man-into the pivot, the corner, the backcourt-at precisely the right moment. And because he does, he has survived in a harsh profession that has seen some 60 N.B.A. coaches come and go in the past 17 years...
This formation puts a premium on energy. The defenders must move quickly to avoid being overshifted by a quick-passing attack. The guards also have to drop back to defend against a pivot man, since the middle man in the back of the zone plays closer to the basket than the foul line...
Barton took the shot, a drive from the pivot position, and the score was tied 53-53. Scully, however, hit two more fouls and Harvard led again. Then came the key play. Steve Spahn of Dartmouth missed a short jump, Scully wrestled the ball free, dribbled down court, and whipped in a jump shot from the foul line. Gene Augustine's two free throws offset Coker's jump in the waning seconds...
...Crimson started the game in colorless fashion, dropping behind 26 to 14 in the first half. B.C. continually drove through the porous Crimson defense, and had it not been for the ineptness of pivot man Frank Richichi, the Eagles might have had a 20-point lead. B.C. was paced in the first half by the spectacular shooting of Humann, who collected 19 points in the contest and hit for 69 per cent from the floor...