Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether "The Wellesley" will ever take the place of the well-scoured bath tub or the well-flattened elbow is not yet clear. And there exists in some doubt as to whether Hopson's ingenious gadget will threaten the existence of the bottle-opener or the swizzle-stick...
...Communist politician and a Conservative author will share the platform of the first Republican Open Forum of the year this evening in a discussion of "American Communism: Does it threaten Democracy." The discussion will begin at 8 o'clock in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
...hauled up from the mine-shafts of the Ruhr before the war, and Germany dominated Europe as a result. The Big Three recognized this when they met at Potsdam in August, 1945 and planned to refuel the European industrial machine with German coal. Heavy industry no longer would threaten Europe under the Potsdam proposals, for Allied nations had first call on Ruhr coal and would receive in addition 1,557 factories in reparations. Germany was to receive food in return for the coal and could maintain a not-too-proud existence as an agricultural and light industrial nation...
...Somewhere north of their former capital, Yenan, was Communist headquarters for all China. In that area the Reds had enough troops to threaten the recapture of Yenan itself...
...Russian people are docile. They do not complain about their rulers, far less threaten them. There is no sign of any major purges. I heard a great deal of genuine, voluntary admiration for Stalin, some for Molotov and Zhdanov. But I never heard any Russian volunteer a single word of praise for Lavrenti Beria, head of the omnipresent secret police. But then few people love policemen, and Russians have less reason to love them than most...