Word: pivoting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite predictions to the contrary. Dave Newmark--the 7-0 papa Lion--started in the pivot. Favoring his injured ankle, Newmark got into early foul trouble, and was not a major physical factor, although he might have had some psychological influence in the victory...
...cover story, written in New York by Spencer Davidson, drew heavily on reports filed from financial world capitals, where TIME'S reporters keep constant tab on economic developments. A principal pivot was Correspondent Robert Ball, who is based in Zurich but whose beat is business anywhere in Europe. The two-page study of "The Nervous Year" in U.S. business that supplements the cover story was written by Gurney Breckenfeld. Reporters and correspondents across the country tapped their business sources for that story, with an important part of the reporting being done by the Washington Bureau's Juan Cameron...
...infield, which accounted for nine double plays, was "one of the best we've ever had," according to Harris. Jim Reynolds, the shortstop and best hitter in the group at .291, worked well with second-baseman Bill Cherry at the pivot. Cherry, Harris said, didn't have too high an average but "he was walked and hit by the pitcher so often that he got on base only one less time than Thomas, and getting on is the important thing...
Viet Nam is no war for the classic military historian. It offers no vast clash of arms; no divisions sweep and pivot to the grand strategy of latter-day Clausewitzes. Instead there are quick, dirty fire fights-usually on no more than platoon or company scale-set in copses of bamboo and thorn vine so thick that men kill at a range of 10 ft. without having once seen each other. It is a war of leg-shearing booby traps and dung-smeared punji stakes, of professional skill and personal courage. It is also a war that is tailor-made...
...amorous, democratic and the soul of good fellowship. When sober, he is mean, arrogant, priggish and smoldering with hatred for his fellow man. Puntila sober, as Brecht sees it, is a class-conditioned animal. Puntila drunk is Rousseau's child of instinctive natural goodness. Some richly comic scenes pivot on this personality split. Puntila sober wouldn't dream of fraternizing with his chauffeur Matti; Puntila drunk begs Matti to marry his daughter. Puntila drunk gets engaged to four separate girls; Puntila sober throws the brides-to-be off his estate...