Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carpenters and workmen moved into the Yard last week, shoved pigeons and students off the steps of Memorial Church, and started building. Said the boss of the gang in profound prognostication, "General Douglas MacArthur will tread these boards come June 6 when Commencement rolls around...
Like the others, Omaha Beachhead is the bleak, official diary of a single, limited period of battle, written for the men who fought there, compiled from U.S. and enemy action reports and interviews. In language as unemotional as a tank tread, it catalogues the step-by-step, hedge-by-hedge progress of units, from company-size up. It begins at H-hour, chronicles the fighting until the First Army turned and drove for Cherbourg...
...Vatican, which keeps a close eye on Austrian developments, was delighted with Figl's victory. Informally, Vatican circles last week called it "clear proof of Austria's intention to tread the middle path between leftist extremism and out-of-date conservatism in harmony with the great, widespread European movement, now apparent, toward progressive moderation...
Last week it did. Radio rushed in where such popular angels as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans have tried to tread: to explain the Einstein theory of relativity. It also tried to make the instruction painless-and all in one half hour's time...
Then, in a ringing affirmation of an old policy, the Generalissimo pledged the legalization of all political parties and the abolition of wartime restrictions on free press, speech and association. "Only thus," he declared, "can we tread the path of democracy traversed by the United States and Great Britain and establish a model democratic state in the Far East...