Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roman Catholicism, Morrison says, does not merely threaten Protestantism-it is a threat to America itself: [It] is a self-enclosed system of power, resting upon the broad base of the submission of its people, whose submission it is able to exploit for the gaining of yet more power in the political and cultural life of the secular community. . . . Its triumph in America would radically transform our culture and change the character of our democratic institutions...
American responsibility does not end with the signatures on the Tyding-McDuffie Act of independence. From the viewpoint of a trustee country that has invested great sums and thousands of lives in Philippine independence it is scarcely consistent to threaten that independence with eventual, if slow, strangulation. And is this new entity to compete on equal terms with Japanese or British colonial enterprise if it must continually scramble to avert economic tragedy in the sugar market...
...grace. There was an untidy rash of local stoppages which lasted until the seven unions involved could get their scattered locals to ratify the deal. Last to act were Bridges' longshoremen. After all, the deal covers them only until September 30, when their contract expires, and they can threaten to strike again...
Knowles allowed the Bruins only two hits, and, although surrendering eight bases on balls, he spaced them out over the six innings that were played before rain took over so that Brown did not threaten except in the first. Collecting three strike outs, he has backed by a team that committed only two errors...
From time to time in its 25 years, radio has threatened, or seemed to threaten, the press as a competitor. Last week, a radio engineer gave the press new cause to consider its existence instead of its freedom...