Word: footholds
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...range from the most elaborate metrical experiments to Christmas-card doggerel. The language extends from recondite embroidery to rather heavy-handed colloquialism. But Wilson's verse bears the mark of homelessness: it wants to break with the old topics and the exhausted diction, but it cannot get a foothold on the new. The very title of the volume is borrowed from the once-famous work of Edward Young, an 18th century poet, now, significantly, quite unreadable...
...thus came within 60 miles of Berlin. At that moment, Marshal Georgy Zhukov's Russian troops were bogged down 35 miles east of the German capital; they had been struggling for two months against the savage opposition of Hitler's Eastern Front armies to gain a foothold across the Oder River. Simpson asked if he should push on to liberate Berlin. Instead, he was told by Eisenhower to consolidate his position while spreading troop units north and south along the Elbe's west bank. As Simpson did so, the Soviet army swarmed across the Oder in force...
...Place in Space. Most important to Ford, however, are Philco's defense and space capabilities. Ford's military sales last year represented only .8% of its total turnover. Philco, which last year did 30% of its business with the Government, will afford Ford a strong foothold not only in military electronics but also in space. The airframe makers, who, in alliance with the Air Force, have largely knocked the Army-automaker axis out of the missile business, may yet find Detroit coming back for a second round...
...bought Litton, then a small microwave tube manufacturer, and began broadening its spectrum by picking up a handful of other small electronics firms. As its stock soared. Litton found it easy to swap shares for control of larger companies. By acquiring Digital Controls Systems Inc., it got a foothold in the manufacture of compact computers that make as many as 15,000 calculations per second for aircraft in flight. A merger with Monroe Calculating Machine Co. gave Litton a chance to apply its electronic talents to the burgeoning business-machine field, with the head start of an established name...
With Chinese aid money and technicians pouring into Tirana, Peking has its first foothold in Europe. And the two new pals seem to be drawing closer together all the time, as Moscow must have noticed with a wince last week. While the press and radio of every other Communist country ran long excerpts of Nikita Khrushchev's TV fireside chat, there was not even a mention of it in the propaganda organs of Peking and Tirana...