Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoe on the other foot, let us suppose that it became the policy of the Soviet to denounce as threats to her security, and threaten to counteract with troops and cash, all capitalist political and economic maneuvers occurring in the Western Hemisphere. Would not our cumulative rage soon border on national apoplexy, and justifiably...
Leverett, with a won and lost rating of 8-1 is on top of the hoop league at present, but either Dudley or Lowell could easily take the lead before the Yale game. The Commuters have come up fast over the past few weeks to threaten the Bunnies' position. Dunster and Winthrop occupy the middle positions in the standings, while Adams, Eliot, and Kirkland, all holders of a 2-8 record, seem hopelessly mired in the collar...
...line Liberal Party, only convinced Gaitan that he needed his own mouthpiece. Last week he had it: La Jornada (The Working Day). As prose, La Jornada's fiery editorials did not compare with El Tiempo's. But they spoke the language of the restless masses who threaten to upset Colombia's old order. If his united front with the Communists stays united, Gaitan may be a factor to reckon with in Colombian politics...
...battle over David E. Lilienthal than the mere confirmation or rejection of another nominee for an administrative post. In most of the opposition to the President's choice as chairman of the new U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, the irresponsible name-calling and the disturbing display of political opportunism threaten the very development and management of atomic power in this country. Moreover, the rapidly-growing tendency to impugn a man's qualifications for a position, simply because he holds opinions either to the political left or right of the accuser, is an instrument as dangerous in itself as the resultant...
Week after week, Rocco had called his wife's office to threaten her. He hung like a shadow around her home neighborhood. One day he poked a gun in her ribs, drove her to a mountain resort where he kept her stripped for three days. He pleaded to let him come back. She refused. One day, a shot ripped through the kitchen window of his wife's home and hit her in the thigh...