Eva Monley, a Hollywood location manager whose fluency in Swahili made her a linchpin in the creation of scores of movies filmed in Africa between 1950 and the 1990s, including "The African Queen" and "Out of Africa," died on Nov. 12 at her home in Nanyuki, Kenya.
"Herring and cake," clarifies Mayer who, in many ways, is the organisation's memory and linchpin: her membership card bears the number 000001.
Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, has made her release a linchpin of British-Iranian relations, but has been unable to find a lever to persuade the Tehran regime to release her.
As Susie Coelho, the effervescent cable-television design guru, points out in "Susie Coelho's Everyday Styling" (Simon & Schuster; $30), her mother's advice remains the linchpin of her D.I.Y. style: "The only time you start from scratch is when you're born.
Here Palin is from an October 2, 2006 interview with the Ketchikan Daily News, conducted before she was elected governor (and before her opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere became a linchpin of her national persona).
Lisa Curran eases some of the stress of swimsuit shopping with her classic tank, a one-piece suit that has become the linchpin of her collection.
Even if the appeal fails, the bulk of Nina's $2.4 billion estimated fortune will remain intact, unless authorities can prove that she used money from the estate to buy her controlling stake in Chinachem Group, Hong Kong's largest private property developer and the linchpin of her wealth.
At home she was the linchpin of her family.
Even later in life, Gellhorn would speak of anger as the emotional linchpin of her professional life.
Sontag's notorious attack on Arbus, in an essay from 1973 that became the linchpin of her book "On Photography" (1977), passed one test of great criticism.
