Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...direct assault, and nearly all the major attacks were aimed at U.S. bases and outposts. Still, in the nationwide scope of the offensive and in the casualties they have been able to inflict on U.S. troops (1,140 dead after three weeks), the Communists proved that they can still threaten nearly any point in the country...
...want so much to have peace, while many of us forces our attention and our hopes on the Paris peace talks, we must be aware, however, that there are people whose very livelihood and whose very political survival depends on the perpetuation of the war and who, therefore, threaten to make it difficult, if not to say impossible, for us to obtain peace...
...rationale has not always been consistent. However, as Nixon pointed out last week, the U.S.S.R. already has 67 ABM sites ringing Moscow. He has long argued that the principal justification for the ABM is that there is "a race already in progress, a race in which the Soviets threaten to leave us behind." Further, he has often noted that if the U.S. is to approach serious negotiations with the Russians on the reduction of nuclear arms-offensive and defensive-the ABM could prove useful as a bargaining counter...
...outburst of yet another feud between the Smothers Brothers and the men in CBS's program-practices division. Otherwise known as censors, these men regularly delete what they consider to be the most offensive cracks from the Sunday evening Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. With equal regularity, the brothers threaten to quit. Last week, after a prolonged dispute over several parts of the March 9 program, CBS bounced the entire show and substituted a two-month-old rerun. The network claimed that the problem was not controversial content but the fact that the tape had not been presented in time...
...Charles de Gaulle is fond of the conspiratorial theory of human events. Last week, when 2,500,000 French workers walked off their jobs after the collapse of wage talks between unions and the government, he went on TV and condemned the strikers as "agitators" and "plotters" whose tactics "threaten to sink the currency, the economy and the republic." De Gaulle told France: "Need I declare that they will all be defended?" He had good reason to fear any thing resembling the massive strikes that caused chaos in France last spring...