Word: toeholds
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United's board called the offer inadequate and urged stockholders to turn it down. If they do not, Teledyne, which has made all 40 of its previous acquisitions in electronics-related businesses, will have the toehold it wants in the consumer-service field...
Republicans, who had previously hacked out only a tenuous toehold in the South, last week went a long way toward making it a firm foothold. In addition to returning its first popularly elected U.S. Senator in Tennessee, the G.O.P. provided Governors in Arkansas and Florida for the first time since Reconstruction and may possibly claim a gubernatorial victory in Georgia as well. In 13 Southern and border states, the G.O.P. made a record modern-day gain of nine congressional seats. This year, moreover, many of the South's leading Republican candidates were able to discard the Goldwater umbrella...
...handicapped children. The boxy gadget resembles an ungainly bug; yet it is capable of sophisticated locomotion. It can travel forward or backward, turn in its own length, climb steps, a 30° slope and an 8-in. curb, cross rough fields, and literally get a toehold in sand or muddy ground that usually bogs down a wheeled vehicle...
...Government that was caught surreptitiously or overtly negotiating with the Viet Cong or Hanoi." Consequently, American policy has hardened. On October 19, Senator Mansfield confirmed and criticized a leak from "high government officials" reported by UPI which stated that the U.S. would never "let the Commies get a toehold" in South Vietnam...
...United States is clearly following its policy of containment and will never permit the Communists any "toehold" beneath the present division line. The Communists, on the other hand, have been fighting for over twenty years to gain what they believe is their share of political representation in Vietnam. All talk of negotiation becomes meaningless unless either side concedes on this key issue...