Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed its slap at Michael with a pat for Groza. In Moscow the Rumanian Premier and his Government received an elaborate endorsement. Welcomed to the capital on a scale customarily reserved for top diplomatic personages, the pleased, impressed Premier intoned: "I am happy that for the first time I tread the Moscow earth. Light comes from the east...
...when they turned their eyes on Washington that the Board rushed in where angels might fear to tread and coolly named Gerow, Marshall and Hull as negligent...
...Harry's Arcade Spa, whose floors have felt the tread of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, pinball was termed "good clean fun," "necessary for morale," "harmless amusement."' "If the game is banned," said one habitue, "you will get a vicious ring of backroom machines and gambling. The ban will probably boomerang." Regardless of the outcome of the ban, Arcade Spa, which thrives on pinball revenue, will be hard...
...taken a terrible beating for most of that time. First there had been the charges set off by the Germans when the Americans came to grab the bridge. Then, for three or four days of terrible urgency, it bore the quaking weight of tanks, big guns, heavy trucks, the tread of thousands of men as they hurried across the Rhine. Hour after hour shells had screamed through its beams; several had gouged big chunks out of the uprights...
Stressing that the obscenity statute was intended originally for the protection of youthful morals and that "to talk about the morals of grown-ups is to tread on dangerous ground," Judge Adlow added, "When we come to books in which an occasional passage may be found to be suggestive, or even as some claim, indecent, the question becomes. 'Will the young boy or girl who might ordinarily be interested bother reading 300 pages in order to enjoy the questionable pleasure which a half or a whole page of suggestive narration may afford...