Word: trod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiegel dusted off The African Queen, surprised filmland by casting it not with regular types like Robert Taylor and Betty Grable, but with a combination considered far-out indeed-Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Queen became the first Spiegel film to get an Oscar (Bogart's), and others trod hard on its golden heels: Waterfront won eight, River Kwai brought the total to 16. Lawrence made...
...corner. The snort and belch of automobiles punctuate the old serenity of Walden. and the yelps of children, followed by the cries of their parents, have all but enveloped the summer-soft days. Across the whole expanse of the U.S., the wildernesses where once only the hardiest of outdoorsmen trod now shuddered under the invasion of hundreds of thousands of families hungering for a summertime skirmish with nature. Smitten by the call of the not-so-wild, these families were happily engaged in a great and grow-inp national pastime-camping...
...acceptance speech, Dr. Scharf trod circumspectly between East and West, hoping for "peace with everyone." In view of "the many crises besetting the church," he said, he would aim "not to find dramatic solutions, but to progress bit by bit." And for his motto, he chose the lines from Romans 12:12: "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer...
Lunch & Ice. They got off their hands for Marshal Tito, whose rambling speech, carefully trod the narrow Titoist line that espoused support of Khrushchev-style disarmament and policies, while reserving for himself a role of conciliator between East and West...
Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless and Kansas' Governor George Docking trod the garden path to Jack's suite at the Biltmore, ready to ditch their own favorite-son commitments in time to throw their delegates onto the Kennedy train. But Loveless had heard rumors that Minnesota's Orville Freeman might be the chosen one, and suggested that the whole vice-presidential business be dropped so he could concentrate on running for the U.S. Senate. Jack Kennedy advised Loveless, who is 49, to keep himself in readiness. "It has to be a Midwesterner, Herschel," said Jack. "Just...