Word: treading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...check the route. They found nothing, and Tatom, now thoroughly concerned, called police. Not until 7:30 did a local pilot sight the bus, hidden in the slough. Police sped to the site and found the bus deserted; the only real clues were two extra sets of tire tread marks near by. Concern turned to alarm...
...tags, and New York Times picture i.d.'s. A caste system was developing. It wasn't until I was standing in an endless line with the rest of the "special" press for my pass to the floor in the $6.50 bleacher section--where no self-respecting Knicks fan would tread for free--that I realized they wanted the college press to cover the event from the television...
...that task, Gutman does not tread new ground. At least two schools of thought have developed theories of the origins of the American labor movement. At the beginning of this century John R. Commons led the Wisconsin school of labor history in creating a standard interpretational framework that, as Gutman says, even later-generation Marxists and New Left historians rarely questioned. To summarize and hopelessly simplify, Commons theorized that unions were economic institutions founded by workers in response to their loss of control over local markets due to rapid industrialization and specialization. Craftsmen's local markets and skilled laborers were...
...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...