Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before anybody had a chance to work up a sweat, Kentucky had scored 13 points to Baylor's one. There just wasn't anything that Baylor could do about 6 ft. 7 in. Alex ("The Nose") Groza, Kentucky's star center, whose head seems to threaten the mezzanine. He sucked in rebounds like a vacuum cleaner. He was swift afoot and deadeyed. Final score: Kentucky 58, Baylor...
Bolles' next worry is opposition. "Everybody is out for us," he muses, "and we can make their season by losing to them." Navy seems to be the most likely crew in the East to threaten in this direction, with an all-veteran boat intact from last year...
...embark upon a general policy to bulwark the frontiers of freedom against the assaults of political despotism, one major frontier is no less important than another, and a decisive breach of any will inevitably threaten to engulf all. . . . Fragmentary decisions in disconnected sectors of the world will not bring an integrated solution...
...superb dribbler, had never looked so good. Brennan and Barnhorst had forgotten all about their ailments, and both sides had forgotten all about the Y.M.C.A. way basketball used to be played. Players exchanged scowls and heated words; the referees broke up one fist fight only to have another threaten. At one point, the referee wanted to keep an N.Y.U. player from shooting a foul until the hooting stopped; the player grabbed the ball, glared at the crowd, and sank one. In the final five minutes, harassed N.Y.U. lost its head completely. When the game ended, 51 personal fouls had been...
...because of its growing importance to the Social Sciences and the Regional Studies Program on Russia and China, it has become less of an exact science. A minority of the professors of Geology who are interested in science for the sake of since have, therefore, favored crippling economics that threaten to wine out the entire subject. The attitude appears to be blind to the aims of General Education, which call for an increase in courses that cut across departmental lines. It is also blind to the need of the Government for geographers in regional planning and foreign policy...