Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moulin. Around 10 o'clock one night last week Fernand left a champagne party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying pints of soup and coffee doled out by a friend in a fishing boat. En route, carrier pigeons released by the escort winged their way back to France to keep Mme. du Moulin posted. Just under 22 hours after starting, Fernand scraped his nose...
...sense of doing something useful in the community. Modern man has been straining so long after success, often doing a job he dislikes, that the strain has become second nature. Men of today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they are in a state of continual and futile preparedness." Their nervous systems, "tuned for combat in the day and rehearsing combat during sleep," get out of whack. So do their glands. The result is such "stress diseases" as ulcers, high blood pressure, overactive thyroids...
...only impetus has come from a stubbornly stagestruck millionaire named Anthony Brady Farrell, an angel with the largest wingspread ever seen on Broadway.* In the year since Farrell took a leave from his Albany chain factory, he has spent more than $2,000,000 plunging where others fear to tread...
Their machines had ground to a stop because there was no carbon black, the toughening agent which comprises about 30% of a tire's rubber carcass and tread. The supply from the U.S. had been cut because of Britain's shortage of dol lars. "For days," remembered one grimy worker, Leslie Joseph Pridmore, last week, "our machines stood silent and we were idle. Without 'black' we couldn...
...reach the shack Jimmy has to pled up seemingly endless staircases and tread through cold, deserted rooms with thin, gothic, stained-glass windows...