Word: treads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finns still joke about their position; "We are a bee in the pants of the Soviet Union; they outnumber us fifty to one, but we put up a better fight." But, lacking the economic independence of Poland and Yugoslavia, they cannot make a break with Russia. The path they tread is narrow indeed...
Such keen interest in current issues indicates the academic community is anxious to discourage the widely held notion that professors are anemic cowards who cling to the cloistered life because they fear the road where men are wont to tread. Indeed, the success of academic penetration into the social, political and literary life of the country shows how well the academy has destroyed this myth...
Poets Stephen Sandy and Sandy Kaye again contribute some of their dependable work. It's unfortunate we've used all our space for lesser men--yet everyone knows a Volkswagen can find a parking place where no Edsel dares to tread...
...Wanta get your foot up on the box?" urged the boy as he eyed Lucius' aging Indian Tread cordovans. "Awful lotta books you got there...
...Tread & Butter. On the Belgian-Netherlands frontier, a smuggler hauling 1,700 lbs. of butter drove through customs without stopping, put the skids to customs men's attempts to catch up by sowing the road behind him with globs of butter, dumped 200 lbs. before he finally ran out of gas and surrendered...