Word: pivots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because his team in neither very big nor blessed with exceptional outside shooters, Wilson has had the Crimson use a slow, possession-type game in practice, relying on set plays and patterns to score points. Sacks will operate out of the pivot from where he has perfected the technique of drawing fouls. In each of the last two years he has set Ivy League foul shooting records...
...Crimson's weakest link so far is its offense, with pivot man Sacks being asked to bear most of the burden. Wilson is trying to compensate for this with a switching man-to-man defense, and a slow possession-type offense to keep the ball away from the opponent as long as possible...
...held onto it. Instead of Casella on the left this year, Little has started Paul Tremblay, a 205 pound sophomore. Captain Opydyke is at right guard and Fred Bucci, a 200 pound junior, is at left guard John Nelson, who alternated at center last year, will go at the pivot position today...
...Oppenheimer's and McCarthy's assumption of their above-the-law status furnishes the pivot of rationalized excuse for vast numbers of either tempted or careless or ignorant lesser fry to flout or evade the law, including security regulations, as may seem best to their own individual judgments. This is so elemental that the almost universal failure of our scientists to sense its truths brings the scientific fraternity into question, posing one of the great paradoxes of our time...
...stronghold, isolated between the Red River delta and Laos, was even more a psychological than a military pivot of the war. The French seized the saucer last November, built it into a bastion with a tireless airlift and talked of sucking the forces of wily Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap into an attack that they felt might hurt him sorely. For Giap, on the other hand, Dienbienphu became a challenge; to reduce the fortress could well deal a deadly blow to France's resolve to fight on in Indo-China...