Word: fulcrum
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Three months ago an Allied arrival in force on this stretch of the Rhine would have produced the maximum of Nazi consternation. Now, the heavy Allied concentrations at the fulcrum of the whole attack in the west-the Cologne-Duisburg sector -reduced the French arrival on the upper Rhine almost to the status of a diversion...
When a drowning seaman is brought out of the sea, he is immediately bound (either supine or prone) on a stretcher by gentle wrist and ankle bandages. The stretcher is placed upon a fulcrum, such as a sawhorse, if handy; if not, in a simple loop of rope secured overhead. Rocking is started, head and feet alternately down about 50 degrees, a complete seesaw every four or five seconds. British Surgeon Lieut. G. H. Gibbens suggests in the British Medical Journal: "It helps some people if they hum a tango or a slow tune, moving the stretcher at the beginning...
...thinks that "there are many evidences of a growing sense of solidarity between American Negroes and the peoples of India." Says McWilliams: the Good Neighbor policy can hardly be taken seriously by South Americans resentful of North American race discrimination. And finally, the U.S. attitude on discrimination becomes "a fulcrum on which the Axis propaganda levers can be placed to exert pressures in multiple directions...
...line near Kursk and Belgorod. To the south, beyond Kharkov, the Germans' maximum hope was to hold a bulge protecting that key city and the northern approaches to Rostov. Of these objectives, the greatest gain for the Russians and the greatest loss to the Germans would be Kharkov, fulcrum of the entire Axis line lying between the Red armies in the south and the outer defenses of the Reich itself. Second in importance was Rostov-a vital gate to the Caucasus and the Crimea and a point which the Germans seized and lost once before...
...Fulcrum of mass production, and therefore of the war effort, is the machine-tool industry which "makes the machines that make the machinery." Just how many lathes, grinders and milling machines have joined the war production lines is a military secret, but last week the National Machine Tool Builders' Association released some impressive figures...