Word: threaten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kwilu, Kivu and North Katanga provinces that threaten total tribal anarchy. Indeed, Adoula resigned his premiership last week on the fourth anniversary of Congolese independence. And who was now touted to succeed...
...addition, Novak moves too glibly over the substantive issues that divide the majority of Catholics from the liberal mainstream. He fails to explore adequately such problems as federal aid to parochial schools and birth control that threaten not only to divide Americans but to block an inclusive Catholic identity as well...
Partial Control. The agenda also left plenty of time for interallied acrimony, which of late has seemed to be NATO's main activity. Greece and Turkey threaten war over Cyprus; London and Washington are at odds over British trade with Cuba; France in effect has withdrawn her navy from NATO command. The most sensitive issue of all promised to be the question of NATO's basic command structure, which has drawn a rising barrage of criticism in recent months. At the heart of the controversy lies the conviction of most NATO members that they should share control...
Lebensraum with View. While speculators and anyone fortunate enough to own land are delighted by the sudden riches they find underfoot, the high prices have already slowed construction of badly needed middle- and low-income housing in West Germany, threaten to do the same elsewhere. The land lust has also produced a longdistance effect: a Florida land boom in West Germany. Germans seeking "Lebensraum with a View" are biting hard at tempting lures dangled by U.S. real estate men offering Florida land, sight unseen, for as little as 5½? per square foot...
...Hudds' haven cracks slightly when Mr. Kidd, their senile landlord, half-remembers that their apartment used to be his bedroom. Then a man and his wife looking for lodging threaten to rent the Hudds' room; and a blind Negro who had been living in the cellar asks Mrs. Hudd to come back to a mysterious unsavory past, to her home. Like The Dumbwaiter, the play ends with a grotesque shock...