Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bombay Royal Yacht Club, where no Indian could tread even as a member's guest, was about to close; the Government had refused to renew its lease. No more would the pink pukka sahibs and their leathery memsahibs stare glassily over the glassy bay. Gone from most of the smart hotels were the signs "Europeans only." In cool Simla, Indians now jostled along the Mall where 20 years ago no person in Indian dress would have been allowed...
There was torrid talk about Labor having to seek a coalition with the Tories. People whispered of convulsions within the Labor Cabinet (Shinwell was about to be thrown to the dogs. Bevan was ready to move in where Bevin feared to tread). Cried Ernie Bevin: "My God, working men and women! This is the first Labor Government you've got.* Don't let it fall!" A gust of anti-Attlee anecdotes swirled up. Said one Labor minister: "If you told Attlee, 'Look here, sir, I've just put strychnine in your wife's coffee...
...Terrible Tread." Saturday was the big day, the time for Dr. Townsend to point into the future. The delegates assembled again in Uline Arena to listen...
...admit that this is intended to be a rabble-rousing speech," concluded Dr. Townsend, wanly. "Let them brand us as they will, we are marching . . . with the terrible tread of the meek . . . [to] the full dignity...
saul Mariaschin dusted off his award for the most valuable basketball player in New England yesterday, the equivalent of a Hollywood Oscar for those who tread the quintet boards, prior to the trophy's first formal photographic portralt...