Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of a compromise. Sargent's rationale for the suggestion-to give the state more time to work out a new stadium for the team-is hardly convincing, given the legislature's past record on that score. What the one year lease would do is give the Patriots a foothold in the Stadium; after a year, it would be difficult to throw them out, particularly after the club has made the alterations needed to raise the Stadiums capacity to 50,000. As any landlord can testify, these days it's easier not to rent to an undesirable tenant...
Compounding the horror of Biafra was the moral ambiguity that enveloped it from the first. Great powers and small became involved in the conflict, frequently for questionable reasons. The Soviet Union, eager to regain a foothold in Black Africa, delivered arms to help crush a rebellion that Moscow would, in another context, have hastened to hail as a "just war of national liberation." Britain, worried about African balkanization, Soviet influence and its own oil interests, supplied weapons to the Nigerians. The British were also concerned with preserving a state that its colonial officers had nursed to nationhood...