Word: footholds
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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...
...circumstance which can be interpreted in favor of the sinner. To condemn this merciful outlook is to misunderstand the entire gospel of Christ. With the hatred of the Lord Jesus Himself the church hates sin, but with His own compassion she stands, as long as there is the slightest foothold, between the sinner and the terrible consequences of his sin. If this means that she will be called the friend of sinners, she does not forget that the same charge was hurled at her Master...
...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...
...more important for the U.S. to keep a foothold in Western Europe than in Japan. Japan is not a very good place from which to do strategic bombing of possible Russian targets. The U.S. does not owe the Japanese anything. The U.S. had the right, and duty, to disarm them after the war, even though someone else might later cut their throats...