Word: spining
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...Jack Dempsey: "The high gift of courage showed out of the slits of his narrow eyes and in his attitude of chill indifference-a gift that was needed, since Miske, his adversary of the afternoon, had nothing at all the matter with him except a little spine disease...
Filmed by special motion picture photographers in the German army, the movie shows Nazi infantry, tanks, guns and planes smashing all resistance in their blitz conquest of Holland, France, and Belgium. "Blitzkrieg Im Westen" is the sequel to the first spine-chiller, "Baptism of Fire," which came out soon after the invasion of Poland...
...supreme power. From North Africa General Maxime Weygand proclaimed that France would never agree to the occupation of Bizerte or any other part of Tunisia, and from farther east came news of the British capture of Bengasi (see p. 36). These things helped to keep the Marshal's spine stiff in the face of an enemy who had conquered France and might be expected to take what he wanted instead of dickering about...
What happened next depended on the stiffness of the Marshal's spine. He sent his new No. 2 man, Admiral Jean Darlan, to Paris to try to soften Hitler's demands. The Admiral had no sooner arrived than he stated flatly: "I affirm that the French Fleet is absolutely and will remain under complete French jurisdiction and that it will defend the Empire against any challenge whatsoever." But Admiral Darlan had authority to agree to Laval's reinstatement provided Marshal Pétain retained supreme power...
...Marshal's spine became too pliant, Hitler would eventually treat France as he had treated the other countries he has conquered. If it became too stiff, anything might happen, including the breakup of France. With De Gaulle on one side and Déat on the other and the Marshal in the middle, France was already not one country, but three...