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...late-season casualty, a "choke", such as the Redlegs, Phillies, or Bosox. One must wonder if it isn't more fun for Angel fans to go to the park with the idea that their team might chop off the grasping fingers of a club trying to maintain a handhold on first place, than to see a squirming team such as Boston, whose only hustle in a night of drudgery might be a dash to the dugout after an undramatic and solemn nine...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme de la Cramer | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...Franco during the Civil War, when they were, as the German aircraft manufacturer Willy Messerschmitt described them, "merely young people for whom it is good sport to play with firearms and round up Communists and Socialists." But when Franco set out to earn Spain international respect and a handhold in Europe, the aging blueshirts became an embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Spain: Calculated Magnanimity | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...tunnel under it or scramble over the top. Three weeks ago, work began on a higher, sleeker model. Virtually complete last week was a new 250-yd. section near the old Reichstag. Atop the 12-ft. structure, engineers placed lengths of circular pipe denying any potential climber a handhold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: No Handholds for Freedom | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

White: "The handhold on the spacecraft is fantastic. Aren't you going to hold my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...narrow funnel in the rock face that led to a dome where there was no hold and no exit. Unable to move or risk driving a piton into the rock, Bonatti hung motionless for an hour, finally gambled on lunging to his right, amazingly lighted on a toehold and handhold. In twelve hours the climbers inched upward only 1,000 ft., camped at dark on a precarious ledge. Throats parched, they longed for the water they had left behind in order to travel light (total equipment: 18 lbs.), listened to a stream rippling inside the rock out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How to Lose Fear | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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