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...taken a terrible beating for most of that time. First there had been the charges set off by the Germans when the Americans came to grab the bridge. Then, for three or four days of terrible urgency, it bore the quaking weight of tanks, big guns, heavy trucks, the tread of thousands of men as they hurried across the Rhine. Hour after hour shells had screamed through its beams; several had gouged big chunks out of the uprights...
Stressing that the obscenity statute was intended originally for the protection of youthful morals and that "to talk about the morals of grown-ups is to tread on dangerous ground," Judge Adlow added, "When we come to books in which an occasional passage may be found to be suggestive, or even as some claim, indecent, the question becomes. 'Will the young boy or girl who might ordinarily be interested bother reading 300 pages in order to enjoy the questionable pleasure which a half or a whole page of suggestive narration may afford...
Jerry trenches were only 20 feet away from us now, but the tops of the banks were covered with mines. I shuddered, hesitated, then peered into the gloom, hoping I might be able to see where I could tread with safety. But the Jocks didn't stop-they literallv leaped toward the enemies' trenches through the half-light. Two trod on mines and had their feet blown off, but their moans, if they moaned, could not be heard, for the Jocks' Sten guns were chattering and terrified Jerries were yelling, "Kamerad! Kamerad...
...Sachs first met his fellow Viennese in 1904. Sachs was then a law-school graduate bored with the law, fascinated by literature and, especially, by the psychological insights of Dostoievski. "I hoped to tread in broad daylight the obscure and labyrinthine paths of passion which he had traced." At this point, Sachs came upon Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. "I said to myself that these stupendous revelations needed and merited the most complete scrutiny; even if it should in the end turn out that every theory advanced in its pages were wrong, I would not regret the loss...
...perhaps our friend is right--what with the war and all, Jester has forgotten to tread lightly while crossing the sacred threshold...