Word: footholds
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...Mediterranean is an indirect tribute to the boldness of recent Soviet strategy. Since the debacle of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Russians have managed to challenge the U.S. Sixth Fleet as the paramount naval power in the area, to loosen Washington's already tenuous diplomatic foothold in the Arab world, and to establish a disturbing Communist presence along most of the southern flank of NATO. The Soviets have managed these feats by deploying a large, modern naval force in the Mediterranean, and by artfully cementing relations with regimes from Suez all the way across the cap of North...
prevent the NLF from gaining "an open foothold in the cities...
...Alliance for Progress. Chile's neighbors, notably Argentina, would most likely redouble their own harsh anti-Communist efforts. There is some fear among U.S. diplomats that the Soviet Union might seek to proffer its protection to Chile, just as it has to Cuba, thus establishing a second foothold in the Americas...
...were embedded in the sandstone in what was undoubtedly their original growth position. "This clinched it for us," Tidwell recalls. "There could now be no doubt that palm trees were growing in these sediments when they were being laid down and that the flowering plants had already established a foothold 150 million years...
...placed our entrails on the table and read the signs with uncanny accuracy. He spoke to me, and I am reeling from the effect. However, we have never been a I "lost" generation, silent perhaps but not lost. We are the last generation to have found any foothold at all in this slippery world...