Word: trod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick Tracy of the Mesozoic Age. No matter how softly dinosaurs trod millions of years ago, Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, curator of fossil reptiles of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and professor of paleontology at Columbia University, tracks them down and digs out their bones from under the rock layers that hide them. But one dinosaur had always eluded him: the coelophysis, diminutive (3 ft. high, 6 ft. long) but impressive granddaddy of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brontosaurus and all the other Mesozoic monsters...
Provocation. In New Albany, Ind., Mrs. Goldie Sutton testified that her late husband had 1) thrown her over a cliff, breaking her collarbone, 2) trod on her neck, 3) doused her with kerosene and set her afire, 4) slashed at her throat with a razor, 5) menaced her with hot grease, 6) shoved her out a window, 7) singed her hair with a shotgun blast. The jury thereupon acquitted her of first-degree murder...
...thousand men of Harvard, but about one tenth of that number, trod watery streets and stood on soggy ground for nearly an hour and a half yesterday afternoon, giving the Crimson football team its final send-off with the climax rally of the season...
Basic B.R.T. This season, beefy tackles and flashy halfbacks, fresh out of G.I. uniform, are three-deep on many a campus -often on different campuses from the ones they trod before the war. The traffic in talented footballers is greater by far than in 1929, when the Carnegie Report let go a blast at professionalism in college athletics...
...shaking hands with new. The air was soon blue with tobacco smoke. Georges Bidault, apparently putting aside for the occasion the worry of trying to form a new Cabinet, squirmed agilely through the pack in his capacity of host-he failed to notice the repressed wince as he inadvertently trod on Molotov's toe. It was Molotov who set the tone by greeting his old enemy Bevin with "Davaite govorit korotko" (let's make this one snappy!). "Very good," said Bevin...