Word: linchpin
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Around the new political probability be gan a great regrouping and reappraisal. So much of international and national progress and reassurance had come to be symbolized by Eisenhower that there was real danger that the prospect of his retirement would pull the linchpin of trust. No man in either U.S. party approaches him in stature. His own party, last week so confident, was plunged in gloom by the prospect of fighting the 1956 campaign without...
After the war, Jouhaux helped found the International Labor Organization at the Paris peace conference. In the '30s, he and his C.G.T. were a linchpin of the Socialist Front Populaire; fighting Franco, Laval and Hitler, he worked alongside the Communists. The Germans interned him in a castle in Bavaria during World War II. When he returned, he found that the Communists had moved into the C.G.T. like moths. He had to accept a Communist as "co-secretary general." For a time Jouhaux put up with the comrades, but by the end of 1947, he saw that he was simply...
...that struggle, cooperation between the U.S. and Britain is "the linchpin of the structure," said Monty. "None of us can stand alone and none are doing so today ... In Western Europe, the eyes and thoughts of everyone are ever turning westward . . . They look to the English-speaking nations and wonder if they can count on their help: definitely. We must not let them have any doubts...
...Linchpin. The key to Nettuno was not in the high ground beyond the beachhead. It was down to the southeast, at Cassino, where he was also on high ground, and showing no disposition to give...
...Cassino, linchpin of the Gustav Line, had to fall before the Nettuno attackers could move. Held long enough, it might even enable the Germans, rushing down fresh troops from north Italy and pulling seasoned outfits out of the Gustav Line, to force abandonment of the beachhead...