Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Cogliandro, owner of the Dunster Shop, said, "when they start talking about raising the price, it's a sure thing they will." Business usually lags for a week or two after an increase is effected, Cogliandro said, "but although students threaten to extend the time between haircuts, they never...
...excellent proposal to found an Arts Center on a stretch of riverbank land adjoining Soldiers Field Road has come to seem less a cultural crusade than a political power play. Plans drawn up by the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center ("MeBAC"), a group formed to direct the project, threaten not only to ruin local classical drama companies by excluding them from the Center, but also, because of this apparent inequity, to founder the whole project before it gets under...
...went on preparing new proposals for Germany that were based on proven and continuing firmness. Principal element: reunify Germany by free elections with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Possible tactic: offer the Russians a new European security treaty guaranteeing that no new German militarism could threaten them, even to the point of guaranteeing not to move NATO troops forward of their present positions in West Germany...
...surplus wheat, corn, cotton, cheese, etc., in federal storage adds up to such fantastic bulk that it costs nearly $1 billion a year just to store the stuff while it slowly deteriorates. And the costs threaten to climb higher as farm output keeps rising. Last week the Agriculture Department reported that, though planted acreage was the smallest since 1918, the U.S.'s total 1958 crop output topped by a startling 11% the previous record highs of 1948, 1956 and 1957. For wheat and corn, already in generous oversupply, farmers set new yield-per-acre records...
Indeed the evidence seems to suggest a "law" of popular gravitation to democratic freedom. Within the past five years there have been violent outbreaks in East Berlin, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Communist China. Today the Soviet rulers threaten West Berlin. Why? It is simple. It is because they have been put on the defensive by the inspiring demonstration there of what free men can do. Internally, Red China is feverishly imposing a communization program designed quickly to transform the Chinese nation into a great military and industrial power. The program involves human slavery, and cruelty on a scale unprecedented...