Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerry trenches were only 20 feet away from us now, but the tops of the banks were covered with mines. I shuddered, hesitated, then peered into the gloom, hoping I might be able to see where I could tread with safety. But the Jocks didn't stop-they literallv leaped toward the enemies' trenches through the half-light. Two trod on mines and had their feet blown off, but their moans, if they moaned, could not be heard, for the Jocks' Sten guns were chattering and terrified Jerries were yelling, "Kamerad! Kamerad...
...Sachs first met his fellow Viennese in 1904. Sachs was then a law-school graduate bored with the law, fascinated by literature and, especially, by the psychological insights of Dostoievski. "I hoped to tread in broad daylight the obscure and labyrinthine paths of passion which he had traced." At this point, Sachs came upon Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. "I said to myself that these stupendous revelations needed and merited the most complete scrutiny; even if it should in the end turn out that every theory advanced in its pages were wrong, I would not regret the loss...
...perhaps our friend is right--what with the war and all, Jester has forgotten to tread lightly while crossing the sacred threshold...
...slashed into the Suwalki triangle, which Germany annexed in 1939. Bagramian's drive toward Riga while Chernyakhovsky waited had probably cost the latter his chance to be first to the sea. Now Chernyakhovsky held in his grasp a greater honor: that of seeing his divisions the first to tread the earth of Germany...
...Global war, the first in the history of the world, had walked with capricious tread. In China millions had died, millions were destitute after nearly seven years of it. Russia, after 33 months of it, was fighting back to victory over thousands of devastated square miles; her casualties were enormous. Germany was in terrible pain, full of dead and maimed, pockmarked by the greatest bomb damage any nation had ever suffered. The conquered peoples of Europe still starved and died...