Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stout Defense. Allied military sources credited the Nazis with 40 full-strength divisions-about 600,000 men-stretched along the 500-mile front from Switzerland to the North Sea. Eisenhower's men outnumbered them at least threefold, perhaps fivefold. Moreover, fewer than half the German units were first-class troops. Many of those holding fixed positions in the West Wall were barrel-scrapings : convalescents, striplings, oldsters, men with stomach trouble, ear trouble, eye trouble-even chronic alcoholics...
...human bite is sometimes sharper than a serpent's tooth. A bite that is hard enough to break the skin, even with prompt treatment, may result in an amputation. If treatment is delayed twelve hours, the chances of amputation are increased threefold. In fact, said Dr. Otho C. Hudson of Hempstead, L.I., in last fortnight's New York State Journal of Medicine, human bites anywhere on the body are much more dangerous than animal bites (except, of course, those of rabid dogs). Reason: human mouths contain very destructive bacteria...
Last week OWI reminded the President of a powerful German war-class-the Junkers. Said OWI: "The tremendous influence wielded by the Junkers for many generations stems from their state of threefold privilege. They are the owners of large estates in eastern Germany, they are the backbone of the Army, and they have been at all times solidly entrenched in important Government positions...
...Washington Benes expounded a threefold doctrine: 1) freed Europeans will not tolerate reactionary leaders re-entrenching themselves through expediency; 2 ) the solution of the Balkan and Eastern European problems can be worked out through a cooperative federation of liberal governments; 3) the future of this federation depends on the friendship and help of Russia, as well as of the U.S. and Britain...
...dangers of this belief, says Dr. Niebuhr, are threefold: 1) to believe that nothing is perfect tempts man to become defeatist toward culture and politics; 2) the frivolous are tempted to "sin that grace may abound," and 3) the rich and powerful are tempted to believe that God has ordained social inequalities...