Word: trod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little did the class of 1960 know how long ago fair Harvard had trod those steps...
...turned to meet the dozens of officials who made up the informal receiving line. Democratic and Republican leaders alike shook his hand; 24 officials from foreign embassies, who had come to the airfield on their own, added their greetings. The whole group lined the red carpet that Ike trod, reached out, shouting encouragement...
...London play, Night Life of a Virile Potato, was hooted, but its star, tempestuous Actress Sarah Churchill, 45, who had not trod the West End boards for twelve years, got a good hand. The play sounded as if it had been slapped together in six weeks on a borrowed typewriter (it was) by a would-be actress turned playwright (Gloria Russell, 22) to settle -the earth-shaking matter of what happens when a gynecologist impregnates his wife and his mistress at roughly the same time. The best notice for Sarah, who played the philanderer's wife, came from...
...Christmastide had long been a happy time in the city room. In trod messengers bearing gifts from sources to newsmen-ashtrays, tumblers, cheeses, fruit baskets, electric roasters, turkeys, hams, and good liquor. If he occupied the right spot-say, a business, entertainment or sports desk-the happy recipient might gather enough spirits to throw a roaring good New Year's Eve party. But this Christmas, in the year of exposure of big TV and radio payola and all its embarrassment, the flow of gifts in most newspaper offices slowed to a weak gurgle...