Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tutoring school has returned to Harvard. This vicious institution, which once made a shame and a joke out of a Harvard degree, has regained, so far, only a limited foothold. But in all except size the reborn "tute schools" resemble the lecherous harpies which once crouched over Harvard Square and drained the College of every claim to honor and integrity...
...fight for partition, the world looked to it for a solution of the developing conflict. The U.S. Government considered calling for an international force contributed by U.N. members. But that might open the door for Russian participation, which the U.S. wants to avoid. Rather than allow Russian troops a foothold in the Middle East, the U.S. might take on the job itself. Military authorities estimated that at least 50,000 troops would be required; sending such a force in 1948 might create a hotter U.S. political issue than the one Washington tried to avoid by accepting Zionist demands for partition...
Viruses, says Burnet, are an unhappy byproduct of civilization; they cannot survive in small or widely scattered populations. Because viruses multiply fast and change in unexpected ways, "new virus diseases of man may well arise in the future." But the chances against any new virus getting a strong foothold are a million...
Pulmonary anthrax, almost invariably fatal to man, might be effective-but it can get a foothold only on mucous membranes already raw with irritation. Rosebury & Kabat have a suggestion: mix up the anthrax spores with mustard...
...Barlow has long brooded on the possibility that Schistosomiasis might get a foothold in the U.S. The disease is widely prevalent in Asia, South & Central America, infected 1,633 GIs in the Philippines. Question: Is there a U.S. snail which could harbor the parasite? Two years ago, Dr. Barlow decided on a sacrificial investigation. Infecting himself with Egyptian flukes (220 of them, by a count of stings), he hastened to Washington, urged Public Health Service officials to let him turn his schistosomes loose in snail-populated waters to see whether they could thrive in the U.S. Officials recoiled in horror...