Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalin was up front, on the tiered dais which faced the assembly. He walked in with his customary slow, firm, dignified tread, wore his customary beige uniform with the wide, red, single-starred marshal's shoulder boards. His appearance? Reported TIME Correspondent John Walker, who was there: "I only hope I can look as well if and when I reach...
...there is no cause to view with alarm. By July most of the snow will be gone, and happy boys and girls will tread the greensward without hard, sudden falls. The cars will run once again, and a new spirit of triumph will probably...
...student domestic affairs commission heads will work to encourage strong and useful student governing bodies-not only for the practical political experience they provide but to solidify the NSA structure at its very base. They must tread softly; the method at the outset may well be a fact-finding survey showing the state of student self-rule across the nation. A more peppery issue: that of "student rights" to free expression and free enterprise in behalf of political belief (no matter how unpopular at the hour). The NSA uncompromisingly supported the right of such groups as AYD to exist with...
...president of Mount Holyoke College; after long illness; in Westport, N.Y. Herbert Hoover rewarded her crusading by making her the only woman delegate to the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference. Massive, energetic Miss Woolley strode into the job with confidence ("Women rush in where diplomats fear to tread," said she), came back just as discouraged as the male delegates. When a man succeeded her at Mount Holyoke, shocked Miss Woolley never set foot on the campus again...
...mystery fans will remember Helen Maclnnes as an author who put feminine curves on international espionage. In Above Suspicion and Assignment in Brittany, she created a creepy, spy-laden atmosphere where even secret agents feared to tread. In her latest novel, Friends and Lovers, she has abandoned the thriller for a ladies' magazine romance. Chief attraction: a headstrong Scottish lassie with her heart in the Highlands. She burns the torch for a callow young Oxonian, but its glow is no more than a soulless fluorescence, shedding little light, no heat...