Word: handhold
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...board will be so strange that even the best-ordered psyche is apt to break out with psychoses. There will be no gravitation, of course, so some of the men will be upside down, walking on the ceiling, like flies, with suction cups on their feet or brachiating from handhold to handhold like chimpanzees in a jungle. Subconscious physical habits learned in infancy will not work any more. The space voyagers will have to force their hands down as well as lift them up. If they try to sit, they may merely lift their legs and remain suspended...
...reelection. Democrats replied that the Republicans merely want to keep things as they are, and proclaimed that they saw no magic in the G.O.P. promise. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, barnstorming through the West and Midwest on a sweeping 32-state, 15,000-mile tour, took a G.O.P. handhold on the future...
...experience for Dave Beck, a man who is fond of recalling that he had come up a hard and rocky road. He was born in Stockton, Calif, in 1894. His father, a Tennessee-born carpet cleaner named Lemuel Beck, brought his family to Seattle four years later, seeking a handhold on the better life. Lemuel Beck never found it. As his growing son soon discovered, he was the "world's worst businessman...
Nowadays, whenever Britain's imperial eye turns south towards Africa, there stands Zik astride a large slice of rich Nigerian cocoa and palm nut holdings, coal and tin and bauxite deposits. Zik has a handhold on a rich chunk of the Empire and he will...
...Whether the content of courses is realistic in a modern day of atomic power is still another question. Even in its self-searching, the Academy, for the moment at least, rests its case with these words: "When you're climbing rigging you don't let go one handhold until you've got another...