Word: pivots
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...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...
Instead, for more than 1,500 years, a strife-ridden but never-quite-failing balance was maintained among China, India, the Roman-European West, and at the pivot point-the Middle East. All four had cultural traditions of their own; but technologies, crops, philosophies, military methods and art forms were traded back and forth, along with epidemic disease. Invasions of horse-riding nomads from the steppes were another recurring plague; but even the greatest barbarian onslaught, the Mongol explosion of the 13th century, was finally fought off or absorbed...
...fast-moving play, and Auerbach has what basketball men call the ''feel" of the game. He seems to know instinctively when a player starts to go sour, has a rare sixth sense for getting just the right man-into the pivot, the corner, the backcourt-at precisely the right moment. And because he does, he has survived in a harsh profession that has seen some 60 N.B.A. coaches come and go in the past 17 years...
This formation puts a premium on energy. The defenders must move quickly to avoid being overshifted by a quick-passing attack. The guards also have to drop back to defend against a pivot man, since the middle man in the back of the zone plays closer to the basket than the foul line...