Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Canadians disturbed at the thought of U.S. troops permanently based in Canada. Few if any Canadians would regard this as a foothold for U.S. aggression. Nevertheless, the Canadians, who refused Britain permission to establish R.A.F. bases in the Dominion as late as 1938, want to go slow. (Actually the question of stationing British troops in Canada would probably raise much more furor.) They want to be sure there is no infringement of Dominion sovereignty...
Against this backdrop, the status of the Russian Baptists looked fine to the visitor from Atlanta. Baptist missionaries had struggled hard since the 18th Century to break the monopoly of the Russian Orthodox Church, finally succeeded in getting a real foothold only 40 years ago. Their biggest boost came during the revolution, when the Reds used them to undermine Orthodoxy...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the barnstorming lecturer to the U.S., as Lowell remembered him: "There is a kind of undertow in that rich baritone of his that sweeps our minds from their foothold into deeper waters with a drift we cannot and would not resist. . . . Behind each word we divine the force of a noble character, the weight of a large capital of thinking and being. We do not go to hear what Emerson says so much as to hear Emerson. . . . If asked what was left? what we carried home? . . . we might have asked in return what one brought away from...
...Tuesday's Primary election free for-all, where the candidates nearly outnumbered the voters, at least two members of the University surged through the opposition to get a foothold in state politics...
Once D-day had come and the Allies had their foothold in France, Montgomery decided, for reasons of "British credit and prestige," to smash the Germans at Caen without "the efforts of any Americans." He failed. "It was a defeat from which British arms on the Continent never recovered," writes Ingersoll. It was not even "a successful sacrifice play." When Bradley went ahead on his great sweep down through Saint Lô and east and north beyond Paris, the British "simply moved along the coast of France" from Caen to the Belgian border. Had Bradley been given ample fuel supplies...