Word: pivots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...only secret of her success. The real trick: "to keep the ball in play," i.e., out of trouble. Babe keeps out of trouble with a fluid swing ("practice, practice, practice") which requires "a stamp of the left foot" to get the arms and body into the pivot...
Norm Shepard may start sophomore Dick Lionette instead of John Stevenson at the other forward. Lionette, who scored seven field-goals and two fouls in the team's last game, would play the pivot position while Captain Ed Smith would follow the ball on the outside...
...Crimson was foiled in the first half by a tight Cornell defense. Captain Ed Smith, guarded by from two to four opposing players, was almost helpless in the pivot. Only the shooting of Jim Gabler, who scored nine points, kept the Crimson in the game during the first 20 minutes...