Word: threat
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...soon made plain. For months, hoping to avoid stirring up additional U. S. sympathy for Britain, German officialdom has spoken to and of the U. S. only in a low voice and in polite terms. Last week it changed its tactics, decided to see whether a threat would work. A Foreign Office spokesman warned: "The entire attention of the German Government is centred upon the American reaction to the Cross proposal. That proposal is nothing other than inciting America to commit a warlike act. I speak with tremendous earnestness...
Lord Lothian did not attempt to argue that the U. S. should altruistically go to Britain's aid. His argument was simply that Hitler is a threat to the U. S. and that U. S. self-interest should dictate aid to Britain. Twice repeating that the decision was up to the U. S., he practically said that on the U. S. decision depends the fate of Britain, the outcome of the war, probably the future of the U. S. and all democracy...
...Threat there are Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward (Warren William and Porter Hall), a pair of sleazy scoundrels characterized by such lines as: "If Muncie doesn't get back to Arizona with the cattle, we'll take over Phoebe's freighting business and land. (Pause.) If he does, there'll be an Indian attack just before he reaches Tucson-and we'll still own everything the lady...
Rick Cutler would constitute a strong threat all by himself and he will be supported by several other tank standouts of recent years. Rusty Greenhood, George Scott, and Charley Hutter are some of the men who will be on hand tomorrow night in the Indoor Athletic Building pool for the season's curtain-raiser...
...order of some kind after this war. But the kind of new order for which Americans may be expected to fight is one which can rest on the consent of the peoples who may be concerned. A new balance of power, which can be maintained only by a constant threat of forcible intervention in Europe, is not an international order for which Americans should be asked to lay down their lives in foreign wars. There are better ways of guarding the independence of America. Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government William Ernest Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy Harlow...