Word: treads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best oarsmen Yale ever produced. After college he got most of his exercise on the dance floor. With friends, he hired a hall and an orchestra for $1.50 weekly dances in Manhattan (known as Dr. Spock's Dancing Academy or the Don't Tread on Me Club). Once, at the stylish Persian Room, he danced so well with his attractive wife that everyone else edged off the floor to watch them...
Good Gripper. B. F. Goodrich Co. brought out a new tread design on its puncture-sealing, tubeless tire. The tread has more than 10,000 tiny blocks of rubber (16 to the inch), approximately a quarter of an inch deep. When the brakes are applied, the blocks flatten out, giving the tires more traction. On icy pavements, said Goodrich, the tires will stop a car 15 to 30% faster than conventional tires...
Every characteristic will become more pronounced in the next few years. It is doubly important, then, to remove what undesirable disparities exist, and to tread yet more carefully the territory between over-concentration of membership and over-distribution...
...Bismarck once said that the supreme fact of the 20th century was that Britain and the United States spoke the same language. Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path...
Great skill will be needed if the Iranians are to tread this isolationist path, and Mossadegh, Brinton thinks, is not the man to do the treading--his head is likely to roll long before...