Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these constituencies where the presence of a partially-revived Liberal Party challenge can threaten the Tory majority. The Liberals are entering over two hundred candidates this time, twice as many as in 1955, when they won only six seats. The Liberals are far more dangerous to the Conservatives indirectly, for they draw many prospective Tory voters...
...pleasantness stopped at his ice-cold bullet eyes. The Facts of Life. Thus began what was, from Washington to Manhattan to Los Angeles to San Francisco, not so much a move to reduce world tension as a historic and tireless one-man campaign to cajole, flatter, wheedle, shame, threaten and defy the U.S. into changing its way of looking at the world...
Last week Ben Barka's enemies, hoping to stop him in his tracks, said he had gone too far and would threaten the existence of Morocco's monarchy. Whether or not King Mohammed took these charges at face value no one knew, but fact was that no sooner had Ben Barka proclaimed his National Union than the palace took away the official car and offices that he had been enjoying as president of Morocco's impotent Consultative Assembly...
...conceal the facial tattoos of their tribal origin. As nurses and teachers, they help the white nuns in the region, who constantly fan out to outlying parishes, get around on horseback, motorcycles or Jeeps, ford streams on oil-drum rafts, shoot snakes and birds of prey that threaten the mission's poultry flocks. So pleased is the flying bishop with the Rosary order that he now plans to launch an equivalent order for monks...
Khrushchev: You wanted indirectly to threaten me. But we have means at our disposal that can have very bad consequences...