Word: pivots
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...action in Wednesday's encounter built up slowly from an inauspicious start, reaching a crescendo in the fourth and overtime periods. At the end of the first quarter the Navy boys had piled up a 12-8 lead mostly on the basis of the pivot play of their center, Gordinier. He amassed three personal fouls in a short time, however, and was replaced early in the second period...
...Christine" is making good. This week she will christen two more tugboats at the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, N.Y. Conceived to simplify wartime launchings. "Christine" is a new device (a bottle-holding arm on a pivot) that showers the champagne with precision, has not yet (in eight performances) jinxed a ship with an unwetted sponsoring...
...used to the orthodox set-up this job is quite a problem. For example, Joe Lauterbach was trained at Minnesota to pivot slightly to his right, make a "Wave-fake," and then get out of the neighborhood as fast as possible. Now he takes a full turn to the left and, with his back to the line, walts for the wing and/or the tail to go past before the play gets under way, with deliberateness rather than speed the key point in the take...
...seemed to stick and pivot on top of the submarine, and felt as though it would break in two," he reported. "But the ship finally slid over...
...Spot. Most of the Allied raids which trip-hammered the Japanese last week were flown from the Port Moresby area. Most of these were directed against the New Guinea base of Lae and its surrounding airfields, and against Rabaul, pivot point of Japanese power in the New Guinea-New Britain theater. For this there was a double reason...