Word: toeholds
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...then an obscure colonel commanding a reserve division at Boghali near the Narrows. Grasping instantly that the heights were the key to the Allied assault, Kemal threw his whole division into the attack, drove the Anzacs from the ridges and pinned them to the cliffs. That night the Anzac toehold seemed so precarious that the corps commander asked permission to pull out. In the best British tradition Sir Ian fired off a midnight reply: "You have got through the difficult business, now you have only to dig, dig, dig until you are safe." Before dawn the assault troops turned...
...china-tableware industry, Bidwell noted, labor is 60% of the wholesale price of the final product. Long protected by a high tariff, this industry never got even a 5% toehold in the domestic market until World War II blocked imports. Now it demands continuing protection to keep output at wartime levels...
...with an occasional outlawed spitter, but that dangerous pitch has all but vanished. Just about the only survival from baseball's rowdy youth is the "accidental" beanball, the close pitch that keeps a batter honest by forcing him back from the plate, that keeps him from taking a toehold and getting set to powder the ball. If the Phillies' Coach Whitlow Wyatt, who learned his baseball manners as one of Leo Durocher's Dodgers, had his way, Philly pitchers would put the brush-back pitch to constant use. "I think you ought to play it mean," says...
Last year Mr. Adlai Stevenson said: "He who throws mud usually loses ground." . . . In the last month of recent campaigning, Mr. Stevenson seemed to throw a good deal of mud towards the opposition. As a result, perhaps he will not have as secure a toehold as he might like...
Sears and Simpsons both stand to profit handsomely. In addition to getting a firm toehold on the Canadian market with the help of a well-known Dominion name, Sears will cash in on Canada's lower tax rates (52% maximum v. 69% in the U.S.). For its part, Simpsons will benefit from Sears's vast retailing and merchandising experience, which has developed such cost-cutting methods as bulk buying and close cooperation with manufacturers (TIME, Feb. 25). The two partners dovetail in another way: Simpsons' mail-order business has always run two to one in favor...