Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Activities Committee has employed the weapons of public suspicion and smearing, so this committee could intimidate citizens from exercising their constitutional right of petition and thus stifle opposition to legislative policies which it favored. Such a committee could go beyond its avowed purpose of investigating totalitarian movements and further threaten those civil liberties which are already in peril...
Soaring beer prices threaten American security far more dangerously than any Communist plot either at home or from abroad...
...returning to the Arena ice at 8 o'clock tonight. For a couple of months now the Chasemen have been looking forward to the Northeastern game as something of a breather after a tough road trip, but the resurgent Huskies have come up strong in two recent engagements to threaten seriously the prized reputation of two favorite Hub sons...
...threaten the London Conference of Foreign Ministers (see below) with chaos if they did not meet Russian demands on a German peace treaty. Germany is still the key country of Europe, if only because Europe cannot recover without German production. The Russians know this, and know also that the Western powers intend to put Western Germany to work for Europe. At London Molotov countered by attempting again to delay a German peace settlement, covering up his intention with a shameless bid for German favor. German Communists promptly seconded Molotov by adopting the slogan: "The Fatherland is in danger." In fact...
...been done in a highly literate vein. Bit it would be refreshing to see the same English film qualities of insight, subtlety, and pictorial honesty applied to non-English and perhaps less prejudiced fields now and then. Despite their quality, the same English faces and the same British virtues threaten to bore emotionally and intellectually...