The Only Use of
fulcrum
in
Catch-22
- Nurse Duckett shrieked and jumped into the air a mile, but it wasn't high enough, and she squirmed and vaulted and seesawed back and forth on her divine fulcrum for almost a full fifteen seconds before she wiggled free finally and retreated frantically into the aisle with an ashen, trembling face.†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(fulcrum) the pivot about which a lever turns
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, a fulcrum is anything that supports something else that revolves around it.