Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indy speed boom. As happens virtually every year, engines are more powerful than ever and perhaps more prone to break down-dozens, worth about $30,000 each, have blown up during trials over the past few weeks. Other boosts to speed are new tires which have no tread. This puts more rubber on the track to provide even better traction. Along with the greater speed, however, comes higher risk. In a practice run last week, Veteran Jim Malloy hit the wall as he came out of a turn at around 175 m.p.h. He died four days later, bringing the fatality...
...wall-to-wall Persian rugs at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston are faded. There are large worn-out spots down the middle of the hall runners where generations of peripatetic snobs have tread or trudged. I had been told that the elevators were perfumed. I didn't smell anything. Everyone had been so impressed with the fact that I was going to interview someone at the Ritz-Carlton, and had inspired me with such an otherwise non-existent curiosity about the mystique of those hallowed halls. As I walked through the doors, I indulged myself in the bad pun that...
...recent New York Times article noted a nationwide rise with only Southern schools bucking the tread...
Although few students complain about the greater abundance of A's and B's faculty reaction to the tread has been mixed...
WINSOME, The Wrongway Inn is not. Although the show is a bit too long episodic, director-choreographer Voight Kempson has injected a good deal of energy and brought off some splendid dance routines. The second-act kickline ("The Don't Tread-on-Me-Blues"--composer Stephen Sondheim seem's to have been the evening's guiding light) is a harlequin-outfitted Busby Berkely spectacular which has nothing at all to do with the plot and is probably all the better for it. As proper compliment to the direction, Franco Colavecchia has done a swell job of set design--his complicated...