Word: pivoting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...ambassador attempted to bolster this pro-U.S. sentiment by judicious and efficient administration of the U.S. aid program, the cornerstone, in his opinion, of U.S. policy in India. The success of India's drive toward industrialization rests upon American aid, he said. "It is the pivot of the whole hope for India...
Remarkable Synthesis. Eventually, the balance was upset. Beginning about A.D. 1500, Western Europe exploited a radically improved seafaring technology to become the new pivot point and center of civilization. In the process, McNeill sees the original Eurasian ecumene absorbed and replaced by a new globe-girdling and all-embracing community of civilization. And with the rise of the West, modern times begin...