Word: treads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have marched under many a banner bearing a strange device, from the "Don't Tread on Me" serpent of the American Revolution to the three-headed elephant of Laos. This year 18 new flags were unfurled by the emergent nations of Africa and the Mediterranean. Cyprus boasts the first national flag bearing a map. Mali is the first to emblazon its colors with a human ideogram, employing an ancient African symbol of a man with arms raised to heaven and feet planted firmly on earth, signifying attachment to religion and the soil...
...system enables swimmers to remain afloat for long periods of time. It is based on the fact that almost everyone with a lungful of air will float naturally just below the surface of the water. A person struggling to keep his head above the surface must tread water, using additional energy. In steps, the swimmer...
...experience. It is like trying to force a left-handed child to use his right." In Britain, even the anti-snobs feel like snobs, and no matter how a man may dodge or duck, no matter what his protective coloration or self-effacement, "however warily, modestly, gently you tread, some snob or other will find a category for you, and drop you into your class like a wayward pea returned...
Last week Lou Kahn found himself unhappily pinpointed in the limelight. At the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Eero Saarinen awarded Kahn the institute's prized Brunner. Award as "a man who has used his superior gifts to tread the hard path of discovery rather than the easy way to success." A few days earlier Kahn had been present at the dedication of the $3,000,000 Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, about which Architect Philip Johnson predicts, "When this is finished, Kahn will be world-famous...
This, of course, is part of the great, continuing debate between democracy and tyranny. Like any reliable historical fiction, Imperial Caesar lacks the element of surprise, but it does move with the fateful tread of a great man's destiny...