Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alas, a full hour of Misch doesn't go by untainted. Here and there he slips up and tries to sneak in an old Jack Carter re-tread like "I was once so poor I used to walk into a restaurant and play for an omelette--what a tough crowd that was." Misch was fortunate enough this night to have a shill blurt out a well-timed "If you're funny enough--any egg will crack up," to obscure the dreaded silence. But he'd do best to refrain from the clinkers and stick with his own fresh material...
Carey had all the attributes of a winning New York candidate. Brooklyn-born and bred, he had the genial but "don't tread on me" demeanor of the neighborhood Irish bartender. A Roman Catholic widower with a dozen children, he was at home with the city's ethnic denizens who ask, above all, that they not be looked down upon. At the same time, he was acceptable to the city's liberals, the imperial custodians of party affairs. Though he served Brooklyn's most conservative district, he maintained a relatively liberal voting record. Besides, after more...
...bureaucrat struggling for power in Washington has to tread a fine line: he must push his ideas vigorously, but not so vigorously as to offend those who have more clout than he. Federal Energy Administrator John C. Sawhill stepped over the line, and last week he paid the price. President Ford held a surprise news conference to announce Saw-hill's resignation, which Ford had requested the week before. It was the first public-though gentlemanly-sacking of a top official since Ford took office...
...thought as for one of today's scholars to imagine himself a member of a slave society. Except that today's scholars carry an additional burden. Aware that their writing may be used to illuminate or obscure the situation of contemporary American blacks, many historians of slavery begin to tread warily at the edges of inter-racial relationships, whether they're considering slaves' resistance to planters or planters' benevolence to slaves...
...young and unthinking, and in his haste to make a niche for himself in the world he steps on more than a few toes. The question remains if, like Cohen, he will remain oblivious to the howls of pain around him, or if his experience will teach him to tread more gingerly...