Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only to food, but he apparently considered it politically expedient to extend the measure over the whole field of amenities available to Communist party members. It all went to show how rapidly a vice such as egalitarianism could eat into an otherwise uncorrupted Communist society once it got a foothold...
...home: while the U.S. labors on the dam that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...
...strategy had to be shaped between the determination not to be sucked out of position and the determination to keep a foothold in Korea. These two factors dictated a three-phase...
While building her web, Aranea puts up "scaffolding" (later discarded) to gain a foothold. But, if necessary, she can walk on the glued strands: she has oil on her feet which keeps them from sticking...
Though it huffed and puffed, the Government still could not budge a pert, German-born woman named Ellen Knauff last week. For 22 months she had been clinging precariously to her flimsy foothold...