Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reed was half the brains behind The Velvet Underground. Andy Warhol's slightly successful excursion into rock as theater. The other half was John Cale. Seems that John used to tread upon Lou's rock 'n' roll shoes a lot in those days. It got to the point where the band wasn't big enough for both of them, so Cale split, leaving the Velvets to some good rock 'n' roll for a year or so. Now Lou's gone the way of his good friend David Bowie, but he's still supposed to know how to rock 'n' roll...
Such attempts have habitually failed in the past even when opposition to the war was much more heated. Congress has never been able to cut off funds for the war. Discouraged as they may be, many legislators are reluctant to tread on that executive prerogative. In the case of the current escalation, the will seems to be lacking to mount a successful challenge to the President. "I sense a kind of public apathy, a feeling of hopelessness about it all," says Senator Frank Church. The bombing, he declares, will "merely deepen the sense of cynicism about our leaders...
Britain's proconsul for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, has had to tread a delicate line between the contending Catholic and Protestant communities during his three months in office-and never more so than last week. First, he had to deal with the rising militancy of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association; then he had to strike just the right note in his response to the latest peace feelers from the Irish Republican Army. Out of it all came the best, if still tenuous hopes for peace that troubled Ulster has had in many months...
...proclaimed that any indigent person accused of a felony has a right to free counsel. Two years later, the court had a chance to extend this right to people accused of misdemeanors, but for unspecified reasons it chose to pass up the case. If the Warren Court feared to tread such ground, could the more cautious Burger Court be expected to rush in? Last week it did just that-unanimously. From now on, said Justice Douglas, "no person may be imprisoned for any offense unless he was represented by counsel at his trial...
What beast should I adore? What holy image attack? What hearts break? What lies uphold? In what blood tread...