Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whereas the Palestinians want to win their right to a "foothold" within modern Israel (situated in once ancient Israel) through the use of terror, violence and destruction, the returning Jews have earned it through their patient work, building and developing neglected, desolate, malaria-infested land that nobody wanted 100 years...
...before the Knesset last week for a debate on Israel's Middle East policy. He insisted that "the Palestinian issue can and must be solved," but added that Israel would negotiate "with Jordan and no one else. We shall not allow the emissaries of terror to gain a foothold of terror among the people of the West Bank...
Lately, Slater has been retreating, selling many of his holdings in Britain, South Africa and the Far East. Last week he acknowledged the failure of his strategy to gain a foothold in the U.S. Only a year after Slater, Walker bought control of the Franklin retail-store chain for more than $13.1 million, he sold it for just $7.8 million. The buyer was Sol Kittay, a British emigrant and former head of the B.V.D. underwear company who is known for acquiring losing operations and making them profitable...
...memorable part of their lives at Harvard. The ability to teach and the possibility of gaining some close contacts with others in the general Harvard community are both viewed by graduate students as a welcome relief after the first two years as isolated students attempting to gain a foothold on the bottom rung of the academic hierarchy...
...finds, cripples the personality, yet in rebelling against it, she has no other solid focus. Unlike the language of the male world, orbiting so neatly in its Ptolemaic course, her own vocabulary is still formative, fluid. How easy then, when so unsure inside, to locate in analysis a surer foothold upon self-understanding. And how uncertain. It's a slippery problem. It means, finally, separating the human needs from the needs of the sex role. It means grappling with the female sensibility--whatever that...