Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulling Tony out was another proposition. Near the top he caught on a bulge in the snow wall; he could reach no foothold. He was soaked and cold and tired. Once they got him almost high enough to touch his pack, but when dark came, the men on top gave up. Their strength was gone, and Tony still hung in the crevasse. All they could do was keep on talking. They heard Tony's last words-which no one remembers-some time near midnight...
Five Are Better Than One. Why had Hilton bought the Statler hotels? For one thing, says Hilton, "they're our kind of hotel, big and comfortable." The money-making chain also gives Hilton his first foothold in such important cities as Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Hartford, and Dallas. Furthermore, Hilton is a great believer in owning two or more hotels in one city (he now has five in Manhattan alone), feels he can cut costs drastically by combining facilities where Statler and Hilton hotels now compete...
Communism's strong foothold in Italy today, commented De Gasperi testily, grew largely out of "the Roosevelt climate" and Allied policy at the end of World War II. Last week, at the behest of the United Press correspondent in Rome, De Gasperi explained...
...forty years old. Born in the Philippine Islands, the son of a missionary, he whipped through a couple of California colleges and went on to study economics in England. A friendship with Professor John K. Galbraith influenced him to come to the University. He gained a firm foothold in his academic world with a permanent appointment at the age of thirty--the youngest man in the field of the Social Sciences to get one. Six years before he had obtained his first government job, one of a string which, by last year, had encompassed the War Labor Board, Wage Adjustment...
...should be clear that this disagreement among members is the best thing possible for the NBC. It will be time to wory only if the meetings begin showing signs of oiled slickness. The NBC thrives on controversy and if chance for controversy ends it will mean a foothold for return of city bosses...