Word: toehold
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...Algeria entirely, the Algerians would "straightaway" fall into "misery, chaos and Communism," but then "we would no longer have any duty toward them but to pity them." And if "the Soviet Union, or the United States, or both of them at once, should try to get a toehold, I say that I hope, in advance, that both of them enjoy themselves...
Seizing at this chance to dislodge the Italian Communists from their one real toehold in Italy, the nation's anti-Communist press and politicians burst into extravagant professions of horror ("An unheard-of attempt at corruption," cried Milan's Corriere della Sera; "A horrible tale," said Turin's La Stampa). Next day Milazzo resigned. His Communist allies for the most part maintained stunned silence, but to Rome's pro-Communist Paese Sera, it was all very simple. Milazzo, declared Paese Sera, was the victim of a Mafia plot...
...Fleet at Pearl Harbor, sent a deeper shock through Hawaii's way of life. Some first families, fearful of invasion, put up valuable land holdings for sale at bargain prices, and the Chinese were there to snap up the bargains and get the outsiders' first big toehold in real estate. But most affected by the shock were the thousands of Japanese-Americans whose ancestry made them suroect, especially to faraway Washington and the apprehensive military. Intensely loyal to the U.S., crushed by the restrictions of martial law and threatened internment, the Nisei wallowed in confusion until their island...
...through a 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...
...eight tiny Leeward Islands, 1,000 miles to the east, of which Antigua (108 sq. mi.) is the largest. Site of Alexander Hamilton's birthplace (Nevis, 1757) and Britain's first toehold in the Spanish Main (St. Kitt's, 1623), the Leewards are historically rich, economically poor...