Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tires have rigid, steel-reinforced belts circling the tire under the tread. The problems are apparently the result of heat buildup within the tire that causes the tread to separate from the steel-belted inner layer and produces blowouts. Firestone, which sold about 23 million of its 500-model radials between 1972 and 1976, recalled 410,000 of them on four occasions because of manufacturing defects...
...earnestness, Charles can sometimes walk in where even constables fear to tread. Last summer, visiting a London youth club, he encountered a clash between black demonstrators and the police...
Charles may be expected to tread an impartial but principled road in his dealings with the political parties. He has also got a very highly developed sense of right and wrong. Very important, he can charm an audience when telling them some home truths. Let me give you an example...
...outlook for 1978 is not much better, despite government moves to salvage basic industries through nationalization, heavy subsidies and blatant protectionism against highly competitive imports. "The best that this will do is allow us to tread water," says Sven Grassman of Stockholm University's Institute of International Economic Studies. Other economists, including some in the government, reject as "rosy" and "naive" official forecasts of positive G.N.P. growth, 10% inflation and at least unchanged unemployment this year...
...rugged Taebaek Mountains, in the DMZ's eastern half, lynx and Korean tigers now roam where few soldiers ever tread. Even movements around the truce village of Panmunjom can be hazardous, not because of stray gunshots, but because a parade of plump pheasants may suddenly appear in the path of a passing Jeep. Says an American officer: "Those birds are so fat they have a hard time getting off the ground. I could set my limit in a day with just a slingshot...