Word: trodden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst Experience. Snowballing close around the schoolhouse and on the well-trodden path between school and outhouses is forbidden. There is an enormous field beyond, in which snowballing is tolerated, if not actively encouraged. When I arrived at the front gate one morning, some of my little angels were snowballing some other little angels just in back of school. I went out and thumped three of them. Fate at that moment sent the eighth-grade boys out to snowball the second-graders right under our noses. This is known as being On the Spot. "Oh yeah," my children...
Less cautious than Green, less ambitious than Reuther. Phil Murray held to well-trodden middle ground. Save for two things, Walter Reuther might still be leading the C.I.O. parade...
More honest than most Communists, he has never tried to sweeten up his down trodden Negroes. His typical story is of some accidental clash between Negroes and whites springing from the fear and misunderstanding of both people, suddenly flaring into a lynching, a riot, a murder...
Drew Pearson, who has long hobnobbed with top-drawer Washington society, was unceremoniously dropped from the just-issued 1945 edition of the swank Washington Social List. The explanation: sharp-sniping, chitchatting Columnist Pearson "gets into too many controversies and has trodden on too many toes...
...fellow-suffering. . . . The churches must lose their lives for Christ's sake and that of the brethren, become the hidden leaven of a selfless love in the lump of misery called mankind, go out and share the bitter things with not one timid shudder, or else be trodden under foot by men who have learned what life is all about...