Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robbins skillfully guided his boat home in front, and Saltonstall took fourth. The M.I.T. squad cracked completely, with a seventh and a ninth, and B.U. was unable to threaten seriously...
Joel Landau may try to equal his sensational quadruple of last year. Landau should take the hurdles, and he and Eli Steve Snyder have run almost identical times in the dashes. Varsity men Sandy Dodge, if his injured leg holds out, and Frank Yeomans will threaten the leaders, as will Bulldog Dave Bain...
...funds take more controversal forms: $20 million from a tax on taxicab rides, $12.5 million from a one-cent increase in cigarette and cigar taxes, $13 million from a two per cent rise in the tax on restaurant meals. The cab drivers have protested loudly and threaten to raise their fares if the taxi tax goes through; the cigarette increase, coupled with a two-cent rise in the State tax, makes the combined State-City levy on a pack of cigarettes a whopping seven cents...
CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...
...United States and Russia are fighting a diplomatic war over Berlin in which either side must attempt to threaten the other into a corner without actually committing itself to armed conflict...