Word: treads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China's answer seemed plain. At the height of last week's anniversary parade, 100 dark green tanks and 144 motorized artillery pieces clanked onto the broad square before Mao and Khrushchev. The pavement rang to the cadenced tread of 100,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, and nine massive columns of militiamen. From overhead came the whine and rumble of 155 Chinese-made jet bombers and fighters. The procession ended, heavy with menace, as 700,000 workers marched by, 100 abreast, shouting, "Liberate Taiwan...
Stepping in where the U.S. State Department feared to tread, Tunisia's outspoken President Habib Bourguiba chided the rebels for their harsh reply and pleaded with both sides to get together quickly on a settlement...
...Assembly took note of the vexed question of recognizing Communist China and admitting it to the U.N., which roiled U.S. Protestant waters when the Fifth World Order Study Conference, meeting in Cleveland last fall, came out flatfooted in favor of both recognition and admittance. The Presbyterians were careful to tread more softly. A resolution drafted by the Committee on Social Education and Action noted that "immediate recognition of [Red China] may not be feasible," but commended the Fifth World Order Study Conference for "dealing courageously and honestly with vital issues that may be controversial." The Assembly's second resolution...
...high-backed throne turns slowly to the audience, the ritualistic tennis game played with gold rackets and balls by Elizabeth and Mary. If the work of Choreographer Graham sometimes seemed pretentious in its symbolism, it was redeemed by the performance of Dancer Graham, who moved sometimes with an imperious tread, sometimes with the pathetic lurchings of a crippled bird as the doors of hope closed...
...When everybody is cautious," runs an old Wall Street adage, "the danger is about over." Last week there were signs that Wall Street investors were beginning to tread softly because of the worrisome speculative fervor of recent weeks. The New York Stock Exchange was so concerned at the rush for low-priced stocks that it asked members to discourage uninformed speculation. Brokers themselves started to boost house margin requirements on lists of volatile stocks. Others took to the newspapers with ads warning small stockholders not to try for quick killings. The effect was like a tonic on a market that...