Word: footholds
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...merely the rivalry of ambitious generals for control of the government, the hegemony of the Far East hinges on its result. It is no secret that the present government is being subsidized by Moscow in order to cloak communistic propaganda directed at the foreign powers who have a foothold there. In an effort to counteract the Soviet influence, Japan stirred up the Manchurian revolt...
...opposed to any action by this State approving a Federal Department of Education, or accepting for this State the provisions of any act of Congress enabling the Federal Government to interfere, or to get a foothold here which may lead to interfering with the free and unrestricted right of the people of Maryland to continue to educate their children in their own way as they have always done...
...tottering vessel; she shivered, climbed a wave, and jerked to starboard with a lurch that spilled the gathering in the salon out of their seats. Ladies and gentlemen writhed in one another's arms, clawed at one another's clothing, groped, swore, sputtered, struggled for a foothold-and all the while the fainting nuances of the world's greatest pianist floated out over their bedlam. Paderewski had heard nothing, felt nothing. Absorbed in his music, he played...
...foreign sentiment abroad in China. If the powers stand strictly by their treaty rights they may so weaken the Government on which they depend for guarantee of those rights, that they may within a few months or years be faced with the alternative of using force or losing their foothold in the country. In that case Soviet Russia would be ready to step into their place, posing as the friend of China. The course of Chinese diplomacy at the coming conference will lie between Scylla and Charybdis...
...Because anthracite miners and operators would be endangering their industry by a strike. Soft coal and other substitutes would gain a greater foothold on the market...