Word: footholds
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...judgment was a compromise but leaves the U.S. enough of a foothold on the Barbary Coast to make it something of a victory for Ben Franklin and his friends...
...Legion held the Old City. Since then, the U.N. in three separate resolutions has urged that the entire city be internationalized. But as the Israelis learned during their war for independence, one fait accompli is worth a dozen U.N. resolutions. They set out to make the toe hold a foothold...
...exhausting scramble. Dry snow, fine as sand, and rock, crumbled by the unending freeze-and-thaw, gave no firm foothold. But at 11:55 a.m., sucking at the thin, cold air, they were at the center of the long, narrow summit, where they planted a Peruvian flag...
...down inside it. No coons came out. Finally-although the opening at the top was only 18 inches across-the boy squeezed himself down inside the tree, bracing his feet against a rotten projection. He hoped to look for coons in a hollow limb part way down. But his foothold broke. Roger slid down 20 feet, stuck momentarily and began sliding again. Skinned, startled and breathless, he landed at the bottom...
...government's foothold in this area of private decision is very small of course--an hour a week--and it may be difficult to see in it any serious threat to privacy. But the principle of private choice has been breached, and its use as a defense against further attacks has been diminished seriously. Once you have admitted the government's right to influence your decisions on behalf of organized religion, you have little excuse for not admitting its right to pressure you on other matters, now as private as religion once was. Once schools can legally sprout steeples, then...