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Word: treaded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowned heirs of Banquo, foretold by the three witches, march with a stately heraldic tread across a narrow catwalk that spans the upper rear stage like a suspension bridge. In these and other scenes, the director groups and separates her players with a painter's eye Individual playgoers may cavil at some of the liberties that Caldwell takes with Shakespeare, but few could deny that she represents a fresh, colorful and audacious directorial presence in the theater. -By T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Power and Lust | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...Friday, the White House tried to tread a narrow line between the obvious U.S. joy at signs of substantial progress and the still prevalent fears that something might yet go awry. Said Press Secretary Jody Powell in response to the barrage of inquiries: "It is certainly everyone's hope there will be an agreement, but it is not a certainty. We do not have an agreement yet. Once they see our response, if they agree with it, we will have an agreement." Conceded a senior White House official: "The outstanding issues are not questions of principle. Those have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostage Breakthrough | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

While U.S. Commissioner of Education under Richard Nixon, Terrel Bell admitted that being at odds with the President "is really part of the job." Said he: "I want to exhort, stir things up, tread on toes." After serving under Gerald Ford, Bell backed the ultimately successful drive to make education a department separate from the morass of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). Now, as the prospective Education Secretary, the final Cabinet choice to be named by Ronald Reagan, Bell should find it easy to be at odds with his new boss, who favors dismantling the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Fighter | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...firm commitment to anything except to look at alternatives. It might be an agency at a sub-Cabinet level, or it might be a separate standing agency, or it might be retention of the present structure." Whatever the department's fate. Bell can be counted on to tread on many toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Fighter | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...York City, gave way to their unmistakeable reality: the reality Joe Liebling saw in them. Possessed of a memory so remarkable he rarely made notes, but quoted extensively and accurately from conversations and interviews, Liebling, one of the most acute observers of his times, chose throughout his career to tread the thin line between fiction and reality...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: High Liebling | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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