Word: treading
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There were thousands of them-leggy, strapping, bronzed fellows. They marched through Northern Ireland's streets and lanes with silent, rubber-heeled tread that still seems impressively American to hard-heeled Britons. They rumbled through towns and across fields in rubber-treaded tanks; for the first time Britons at home saw the U.S. Armored Force in action...
...Tread rubber is identical in both countries, being the best that U.S.A. technicians have yet been able to develop...
Back of the military zone in which Japs and aliens are forbidden to set foot at all (see map) is a second zone where they must tread lightly. The General hinted that Japs who settled in this region "in all probability will not again be disturbed"-provided they do not stumble on one of the 97 special areas (around dams and reservoirs, power plants and armories) which are also out of bounds. (Not one of the Governors of nine inland Western States wanted them...
Knowing these things, both Berlin and Washington tread warily...
That Syria was a rather jumboesque campaign was hardly General Jumbo Wilson's fault. He had to tread warily lest he inflame Arab sensibilities or drive Vichy further into the arms of the Axis. The Allies' hope that large-scale deserticras and native uprisings would quickly crack General Dentz's defense did not materialize. They had not reckoned that his seasoned regulars would fight no matter who gave the orders. On the British and Free French they had inflicted nearly 1,500 casualties...