Word: trod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Pro." During the dead calm of the pre-World War II years he dutifully trod water in a routine variety of posts. He got married, fathered a daughter, Patricia, and a son, Grant, who is now a Navy lieutenant at the Navy Postgraduate School at Monterey, and polished his golf game to a ten-handicap shine. In mid-1942 he got a wartime command aboard a minesweeper, picked up a commendation for combat action off Casablanca, then served nearly two years on the Boyd in the Pacific. His older brother, Thomas, was also a Navyman...
Boston is an old city, and its streets are random by-ways first trod by Pilgrims' feet. They are narrow, crooked, totally unpredictable. And they often feed into insidious death-traps known as "squares...
That act, of course, trod hard on the toes of the consigner, a California artist named Manuel B. Tolegian. Though his own work is stolidly academic, he claims that Pollock was a high school chum, a "constant companion," and a co-worker in the 1930s. He, for one, stood behind their authenticity 100%. How could Mrs. Pollock judge the paintings, he asked, when they were done before she knew the artist? "I didn't even know Pollock had a wife until recently," added Tolegian innocently...
...Those who have sympathized with the civil rights movement would be torn between their children and their convictions. Children themselves would hardly understand a cause which deprived them of their toys for the sake of Negro victims in a distant Southern city. The altruistic spirit of Christmas would be trod under by a confused and contrived attempt at creating support and wearing down opponents...
...deviationists and running dogs of fascism. The Russians called Mao a "foul liar" who is "trying to destroy the unity of the socialist camp" and charged the Red Chinese leaders with being "ready to sacrifice hundreds of millions of people in a nuclear conflict to establish world Communism." Peking trod just as heavily on Khrushchev's toe by asking who it was who "irresponsibly played with the lives of millions by recklessly introducing rockets into Cuba and then humiliatingly withdrawing them." What really outraged the Russians was Red China's presumption. Izvestia spluttered that in 1961 China equated...