Word: footholds
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, the barnstorming lecturer to the U.S., as Lowell remembered him: "There is a kind of undertow in that rich baritone of his that sweeps our minds from their foothold into deeper waters with a drift we cannot and would not resist. . . . Behind each word we divine the force of a noble character, the weight of a large capital of thinking and being. We do not go to hear what Emerson says so much as to hear Emerson. . . . If asked what was left? what we carried home? . . . we might have asked in return what one brought away from...
...Tuesday's Primary election free for-all, where the candidates nearly outnumbered the voters, at least two members of the University surged through the opposition to get a foothold in state politics...
Once D-day had come and the Allies had their foothold in France, Montgomery decided, for reasons of "British credit and prestige," to smash the Germans at Caen without "the efforts of any Americans." He failed. "It was a defeat from which British arms on the Continent never recovered," writes Ingersoll. It was not even "a successful sacrifice play." When Bradley went ahead on his great sweep down through Saint Lô and east and north beyond Paris, the British "simply moved along the coast of France" from Caen to the Belgian border. Had Bradley been given ample fuel supplies...
...month after he took command, the division captured Buna and MacArthur had his foothold on the north coast. The men of the 32nd, who called their division cemetery ''Eichelberger Square." then went on to fight the coastal campaign and the battle of the Philippines. This week they had their greatest hour of triumph when General Yamashita walked into their lines...
...Taoiseach nailed his colors to the top gallant, declaring that with his little army of 50,000 Irishmen he would fight any & every invader. . . . And he got away with it triumphantly, saved, as Mr. Churchill has just pointed out, by the abhorred partition, which gave the Allies a foothold in Ireland. ... It all sounds like an act from Victor Hugo's Hernani rather than a page of modern world war history; but Eamon de Valera comes out of it as a champion of the Christian chivalry we are all pretending to admire...