Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author Dr. Marynia F. Farnham, spoke at a Law School Forum last year. Herself a mother of a teen-age daughter, Dr. Farnham states in her now book, "The Adolescent": "Uncomfortable as the idea may be, the author believes that there is an irreversible tread in the direction of sexual relations prior to marriage." She goes on to say that "there is no sign that there is any large demand for any change...
There was little opposition at first. Master Sergeant Arthur Tucker's Patton hit a mine about eight miles north of Seoul while reconnoitering a bypass around a blown bridge. Its left tread peeled off like a snake's discarded skin; the men inside crawled out to shiver in the sunlight. Then an armored scout car, with a British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel...
...early and removes the one really dashing character (nicely played by Jack Hawkins). Thereafter, only true romantic intensity can save one of the least inevitable of tragedies from seeming one of the most protracted. The current production has a handsome but slightly heavy look, a slow and slightly heavy tread, and acting in every conceivable style...
...found he comes back into my store," the liquor man went on. "He walks up & down, nervous as a cat, while I'm serving the other customer. Then, when the other guy's gone out, Kirkes says that the tracks near the body looked just like the tread of his car's tires. So he needs an alibi, and he tries to get me to say I sold him the liquor at 7:30 p.m. on the night of the murder. That isn't true...
...beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister: "I can't. It's lit." A reporter asked him how the talks were going...