Word: handholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relating the theory's history, fundamental concepts, applications and elements of the current controversy. Although swallowing the theory without the math requires some suspension of disbelief, Woodcock and Davis manage to present a cogent summary and the reader is left with the feeling that he has at least a handhold on the material...
...wait out the crisis instead of facing it, as they have before. The departure of Isabel Perón would probably not change that mood, but more and more Argentines are convinced that it must come-in weeks if not days-if the nation is to preserve its handhold on the edge of order...
...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...
...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...