Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...threaten" to add a fashion column to TIME if one hundred subscribers write and request...
...able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the children do get married...
...ditch looked after 20 years. His talk was his first publication of his impressions, which were, chiefly, that a $500,000,000 sea-level canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River; 2) the sea-level canal would be no easier to defend in war-time than the Panama locks since the narrow sea-level channel could...
...knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders. Unable to realize that the present flood is the greatest in the history of the Mississippi, hating the thought of herding into refugee camps, they cling to their homes and threaten to add great loss of life to the other disasters of the flood. One farmer is said to have been "rescued" six times from a flooded home to which he has each time returned...
...William Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, took a step of such grave moment last week, as to threaten his own position in the Baldwin Cabinet, and render probable a break in the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia...