Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wind which never let up once all afternoon made it nearly impossible for either team to score or even threaten when they were facing it. The play from beginning to end was for the most part fairly near the goal line down in the bleacher end of the park...
...Sejm will never open so long as armed men threaten us with sabres and pistols...
...problem was rounding up the prisoners, who, out on bail, were still conducting their businesses and living in their homes. Several sent brothers, friends or other proxies to answer to their names and numbers. One morning 13 prisoners arrived several minutes after proceedings had started. Judge Knox had to threaten to keep all the accused in jail until the conclusion of the trial if attendance records did not show an improvement...
...undergraduates of Harvard threaten to take young Cohen in charge and to give him the "water cure" before he brings further discredit upon the venerable institution at which he is an accredited student...
When domestic quarrels threaten acute physical violence, nervous householders send for a policeman to restore order. So, last week, did the Austrian Republic. Frightened by the imminent threat of civil war between Austria's two snarling private armies (the semi-Fascist Heimwehr, and the Socialist Schutzbund), the entire cabinet of Chancellor Ernst Streeruwitz, an ineffectual businessman, declared itself incapable of dealing with the situation, resigned in a body. Leaders of all political parties rushed to Vienna's police station, begged sleek white-bearded Police Chief Johann Schober to take over the reins of government...