Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quickening the pace, the Freshmen notched four goals and a foul to overpower the Worcester aggregation which held on to threaten again near the close of the extra time...
Andover has power in every event, especially in the breaststroke and the dive, fields in which they threaten the Crimson's good operatives. Captain Jim Hubbell and Harvey Pastel...
Rationing was made necessary more by hoarders' fears of it than by a serious shortage in 1942 supplies. Nor does his 1942 quota (77 lb., counting industrial supplies) threaten the U.S. citizen's health, whatever it does to his sweet tooth. But industrial users are in a worse fix. Not only are they under quota, but their foresighted purchasing was in vain...
...Jumbos Threaten Picket Line...
Northbridge Rectory, the latest Thirkell, reports Barsetshire during the Battle of Britain. Its large cast of small-town Britons is so very whimsical, lovable and British that they constantly threaten to slip into vaudeville (but never quite do). Nothing in particular happens to any of them. But the day-to-day record of their semi-humorous plane-watchings, their quiet contempt for "our little friend with the moustache," their unruffled adjustments to blackouts, to ill-mannered evacuees, to billeted officers, to shoddy goods "which, if we describe them as Empire, will be sufficiently described," to food shortages and to death...