Word: linchpins
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This week, they lanced through in places to the Donets River and made some crossings. Millerovo's capture was one of the major tests of whether Russia's southern offensive could break through to Rostov, linchpin of the whole German southern front. Now the Reds' chance of knocking out the linchpin looked increasingly good...
...announcer's voice, a very important one. It controlled the mouth of the great River Don. It lay athwart the oil pipeline from the Caucasus. It was a key point in the best railway line between the Caucasus and the capital. And, most important, it would be the linchpin of the imminent German attack on the Caucasus itself...
Crimea is no Crete. It is three times as big as Crete. It is a peninsula, not an island. It is a center of trade, the linchpin of a whole sea, not just an olive grower's paradise. It boasts a great naval base, not just a great, bare bay. It has several bristling military airports, not just four improvised plane-patches. Its fortifications have been planned for years, not mere days...
...Linchpin. There was one passenger aboard the second plane the loss of whose life was incalculable in these terms...
...motor, he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U.S. in 1914. became, at 34, president and managing director of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals -Canada's Du Pont). Now he had become, as Viscount Halifax said last week, ''the linchpin of the vast organization built up on this side to cooperate with the U.S. Administration in all vital matters of production and supply...