Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sports Car Club of America still shuns the upstart go kart as unsafe and undignified. But many a driver of 150-m.p.h. racers keeps a go kart in his backyard, insists that the wide-tread width (two-thirds of the wheelbase) makes the kart safer than most bigger machines. Top sports-car men who get a kick out of go karts include John Fitch, Jay Chamberlain and Dan Gurney, despite the fact that one knocked him down last year in the Bahamas and broke his ankle. And in Britain, Stirling Moss, the finest driver of them all, is a partner...
...Thomas Henry Huxley. For a while, belief seemed to be a question of Genesis or The Origin of Species, Adam or ape, God or Darwin-and Evolutionary Biologist Huxley, as "Darwin's bulldog," was widely suspected of not being pro-God. For the line Huxley himself preferred to tread, a sort of high wire stretched between scientific fact and an unknowable God. he coined the word agnostic...
...longtime wonder of Red China was outspoken Ma Yinchu, president of Peking University. Where others feared to tread, he plunged in and got away with it. Last month, when party leaders complained about his attack on the official doctrine that an ever-increasing population is essential to China's strength, Ma Yinchu roared: "Even though I am nearly 80 years old, and know that an individual cannot resist the multitude, I am ready to go to battle with bare hands and perish rather than yield...
...friend Fritz Reiner on the podium. Since then, the work has rarely been performed in Europe and never by a major U.S. orchestra. Last week it made a long overdue reappearance under the baton of Conductor Reiner, and this time the stepchild clearly strode with a giant's tread...
...sentence read: "A satanically majestic experiment in living, Caligula continually stirs interest and then finds its temperature falling." And Walter Kerr also wrote: "The evening seems like the four whirring wheels of a high-powered automobile racing immobile on ice ... Scene by scene, the footfall is familiar, the measured tread monotonous...