Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth does not threaten to give the Crimson much competition as a whole, but there are excellent prospects in several individual events. Probably the best race will be in the 150 backstroke when Bud Stein attempts to continue his recent winning streak by defeating Art Boswerht, Stein, competing against Bowdoin Monday, turned in 1:41.6, a Dartmouth record, and that is very good time even in Cambridge...
Amid such sentiments, subject to such pressure, Franklin Roosevelt who never loved the strict provisions of the Neutrality Act stood by it. He knew that at such a late hour lifting the embargo would involve the U. S. in diplomatic trouble and threaten U. S. peace far more effectively than it could help Loyalist Spain. This put the President in an unusual spot for him: on the unpopular side of a question. But he did not refer to these facts when he replied, through the press, to the clamoring friends of Loyalist Spain. He referred all pleaders to the State...
...triumph of Generalissimo Francisco Franco constituted no danger for them, there were facts that could not be disguised. Italian troops are still in Spain. Italy occupies lock, stock and barrel the strategic Island of Majorca. German guns back of Algeciras dominate Gibraltar, are able at any time to threaten Britain's Mediterranean "lifeline." Both France and England would have much to fear from German submarine bases on Spain's northwest coast, four of which, by well-authenticated reports, have already been established. German submarine bases on the Canary Islands could threaten Britain's route to the East...
...nation so scared and so burdened financially is not in a condition to lick anybody. And then, who in hell are we afraid of? With Japan absorbed . . . with the balance of power so nearly equal in Europe, where is there an ounce of naval or military strength free to threaten...
Those Iron Guards who fled from Rumania to Germany found a welcome not unlike that given to the Sudeten "refugees" in September. That Germany would threaten to invade Rumania was improbable, since the two have no common frontier. That Germany might foment a Nazi revolt in Rumania, under the slogan FIGHT AGAINST WORLD JEWRY, had become increasingly probable...