Word: threated
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...Turks insist upon being paid. The Greeks refuse to pay. That is not all. Greece threatens a resumption of hostilities with Turkey unless the claim for indemnification is dropped. In view of the fact that Greece would completely estrange the friendship of Europe if she declared war, her threat cannot be regarded as more than a diplomatic bluff. The Turk, however, is the hardest man in the world to bluff...
...first two frames neither team was able to score, but in the third the Tigers ran wild on the bases, scoring five runs before they were retired. The Green made their only threat in the fourth, scoring two runs, but the Tigers came back with three more in the last of the same inning and Princeton was never in danger thereafter. Caldwell, the Orange and Black twirler, allowed his opponents only six hits, and helped win his own game with two triples and a single...
...efforts of the presidents at Peking have always been divided between safeguarding the provinces against bandits and keeping themselves in power. Now they are forced to clear up the provinces or suffer a foreign army to undertake the task. That same threat, directed at a feebly inactive Mexican government, brought results; and, strangely enough, eventually brought the government itself greater power and prestige in its own country. The same thing may occur in China; the administration, in satisfying the demand to destroy brigandage, may find itself more firmly seated at Peking...
SWINGING, to be hanged; "if you don't accede to my desires, I'll SWING for you," i. e., take your life a common threat in low neighborhoods...
There is one curious side of de Valera's threat: any Irishman should have known that it was manifestly absurd to deprive the nation of their traditional joy on St. Patrick's Day, no matter what might be the political or economic exigencies. Again, when framing the "order," de Valera must have known that he could not possibly enforce it. The cause of this bravado seems somehow lost in its effect...