Word: treading
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...nightclubs must still tread warily to get around the licensing laws, which forbid liquor sales after 11 p.m. The commonest dodge is the "bottle party" (invented some 14 years ago), which provides that, for a year's fee of about ?3, guests sign an invitation list and a wine order. This permits signers to "invite themselves" to the club and drink liquor ostensibly purchased and owned by them, but kept on the premises...
...muffled tread of labor, marching, beat in Southern ears. The C.I.O. was already on crusade (TIME, May 13). This week, in Asheville's cool mountain air, the A.F. of L. mustered its ranks for the torrid tramp through Dixie...
Carpenters and workmen moved into the Yard last week, shoved pigeons and students off the steps of Memorial Church, and started building. Said the boss of the gang in profound prognostication, "General Douglas MacArthur will tread these boards come June 6 when Commencement rolls around...
Like the others, Omaha Beachhead is the bleak, official diary of a single, limited period of battle, written for the men who fought there, compiled from U.S. and enemy action reports and interviews. In language as unemotional as a tank tread, it catalogues the step-by-step, hedge-by-hedge progress of units, from company-size up. It begins at H-hour, chronicles the fighting until the First Army turned and drove for Cherbourg...
...Vatican, which keeps a close eye on Austrian developments, was delighted with Figl's victory. Informally, Vatican circles last week called it "clear proof of Austria's intention to tread the middle path between leftist extremism and out-of-date conservatism in harmony with the great, widespread European movement, now apparent, toward progressive moderation...