Word: linchpin
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...most significant events in history are not always immediately recognized for what they are. In school, we learned that the linchpin of the 1920s was the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Today we realize that Robert Goddard's experiments in rocket propulsion during that period were much more important for the distant future. When you look at the Nixon resignation from the perspective of drama, there are few parallels. But as to its cataclysmic properties-well, let's wait...
JAPAN. The country that Nixon described as the linchpin for peace in the Pacific, and then slugged with successive economic and diplomatic shokku, is not at all sorry to see Nixon's removal from the White House. The Japanese felt slighted by the Nixon-Kissinger brand of surprise diplomacy, and they will be anxious to establish close relations with the new leader of their No. 1 trading partner. To do that, however, they will have to cooperate on economic matters more fully than they have in the past...
Hidden Dangers. Considering the number of spies on the job, the competition for tangible results must be fierce. After all, how many secrets are left? Yet West Germany, as the linchpin of the Western alliance, continues to provide fertile ground for espionage. Some 200,000 U.S. soldiers and airmen are stationed there, backed by an array of tactical nuclear weapons. In addition to military secrets, the average spy in West Germany sends back inside information on government policymaking, back-room politicking and the latest rumors on the diplomatic circuit. If he suffers the humiliation of getting caught...
Inevitably, the President is the focus, the essence of the crisis of the regime, the linchpin of its entire structure. The character of a regime always reflects and expresses the character of its leader. It is he who appoints his executive staff. If he does not explicitly command what his aides do and agents do, they in any event do what they sense and believe he wants them to do. The captain is responsible for his ship, the commander for his army. And Mr. Nixon has explicitly recognized this responsibility...
...became an obsession for the next several years; culminating in 1907 S in a campaign to save the sport, which seemed in danger of imminent death. FDR's cousin Teddy came to the Union to express his support for the game, and the paper used his speech as the linchpin of an editorial campaign. The editors canvassed the University with postcards, and received overwhelming support for the continuation of intercollegiate competition. A petition kept at The Crimson offices got 2000 undergraduate signatures for the continuation of the sport, and President Allen W. Hinkel 'OS presented it to a meeting...