Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence comes on slowly. Periodically, the panel discussion is blacked-out, and the rioters enter to threaten the audience. We are confronted with ghetto rats, miscegenation, and bayonets. A disquieting sense of unease forces us to abandon our earlier role of the enlightened, liberal audience. Each time the panel resumes, the absurdity of the very pretense of a "discussion of race relations" becomes more evident. All of the panel's proposed "rational" solutions--individual initiative, integration, compromise, separatism--collapse. Even the experts are not safe...
...Italy's thriving Fiat, which stands next only to the U.S.'s Big Three among world automakers, announced merger plans last month, they got short shrift from Charles de Gaulle. In exercising an effective veto, the De Gaulle government charged that the deal would threaten "the independence of a very important French company...
Beneath this is Their unfailing tendency to see Woman lurking behind every individual and to define Woman exclusively as a sexual being. They don't like women to deviate from preconception, and when women do threaten to leap the boundaries their achievements are either discounted or attributed to some mysterious quality of femininity. At one point Mrs. Ellmann quotes an article on Sylvia Plath...
Pete Bogovich, who left the game with a slight limp in the final period, and Solomon Gomez did threaten to score in the final period. Bogovich dribbled by four defenders into scoring range, but his shot was wide of the goal. Gomez's scoring threat was stopped by the referee's whistle for pushing in front...
Largely ignored by preseason prognosticators, Harvard and Penn surprised the experts and now threaten to dethrone Yale from its Ivy tower. All three teams presently share the League lead with 3-0 records...