Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...community this movement has taken a foothold that makes us all wonder where it is going and what next. Ask parents what Young Life is and they don't know. Ask them why they let the kids go, and they don't know. Ask the kids what they do and why they go. They say, "I don't know." Everyone seems to take the attitude, "Don't worry. These kids are in good hands...
...comfort to Veteran Educator Heald. "Their rise was often promoted by a developing, dedicated, sometimes inspirational school system. How will their counterparts of the 19605 fare?" By all evidence, not well. "An educational revolution is beginning to sweep the U.S.," but New York schools can barely "keep a foothold on the status quo." They are run by a politically appointed board of education, gripped in a "fiscal imprisonment" that plants city hall between the schools and state funds. The whole system is bogged down in a mire of "administrative inefficiency, political manipulation and official timidity." And why should this...