Word: handholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
France still had a legal claim; juridically, the mandate still existed. But this was a tenuous handhold on an area which has traditionally been the scene of Anglo-French imperial rivalry. Commented London's Times with surprising frankness: the settlement "enables the [Syrian and Lebanese] Governments to concert measures which may eventually further that larger Arab union which is one of the aims of British policy in the Middle East...