Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bright new uniforms, and he liked to appear on horseback at the head of his troop on the King's birthday. Then, on the fourth anniversary of the Boston Massacre, he publicly denounced the British with Ciceronian fervor: "Ye dark, designing knaves; ye murderers, parricides! How dare you tread upon the earth which has drank in the blood of slaughtered innocence...
...back on its entrepreneurial origins. Kroc had touted the franchising scheme, for instance, as a kind of popularization of big business, an opportunity to return to the era of Mom and Pop restaurants in spite of an increasingly concentrated economy. But as Kroc's company grew, it began to tread mercilessly on the franchisers who had paved the way for its growth. Using questionable techniques, it aggressively bought back many of its franchises--usually the most profitable--which had provided it with capital and spread its name...
Subsequent events seem to have vindicated both my praises and my final warning: "To survive in the jungle of intellectuals, the sociobiologist had best tread softly in the zones of race and sex." I should also have stressed that critics--myself and others less laudatory--are under a special obligation in this sensitive area to strive for objectivity and civility. Natural scientists are learning the hard way what social scientists have never been allowed to forget, that interests and ideologies have a force of their own, not necessarily conducive to the determination of scientific truth. Paul A. Samuelson Institute Professor
...possible for the old stones and bricks of Harvard Yard, the dormitories, the classrooms, the libraries and the churches, to have witnessed so much over the generations without absorbing a kind of warmth and life of their own--along with several layers of seemingly ineradicable grime. Just to tread across the Yard, basking in that rich past housing a living tradition that no amount of mismanagement and folly can undo is always a moving sensation, even when one faces the constant peril of beaning at the hands of the student body's countless spastic frisbee hurlers...
...snow tires; on hard-packed snow they perform just as well. Indeed, in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and New York City, the GM TPC-Spec radial qualifies as a snow tire. Recently the National Safety Council, after some prodding by GM, announced that tire performance in snow is determined by tread configuration; since the center-tread portion of GM's tire resembles that of a snow tire, its performance presumably would be similar...