Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even up to the last hours before the deadline, officials were far from certain of their pre-enrollment figures and names. Last-minute dischargees, for example, threaten to swell the already overcrowded ranks and create more problems for a staff that has been increasingly harassed in recent weeks by the multifold difficulties of reconversion...
...Foreign Minister, said Dr. Adrogue (even before President Edelmiro Farrell could threaten him with libel charges), wouldn't let the vigilance board liquidate the potent firms (estimated value: $24,000,000) of Nazi Agent Ricardo Staudt, onetime officer in the Elite Prussian Guard. Asked Buenos Aires' staunch, prodding La Vanguardia: "Is this favoritism on the part of Sr. Cooke due to the fact that Sr. Staudt ... is the principal financier of the [Perón for President] campaign...
...immediate objective was not revolution or even reform; it sought veto positions from which it could threaten with desertion any cabinet whose foreign policy seemed to oppose Soviet Russia...
Actually John Lewis, having shown again that he can threaten the nation with cold homes and idle blast furnaces by a casual shake of his shaggy mane, was merely content to rest on his laurels for a while. The public interest coincided with his own because...
...still lingered. Just before leaving for London, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes sharply castigated loose talk that the U.S. might give away the secret (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In London, however, there was persistent cackle about placing the bomb at the disposal of the United Nations Security Council, to threaten or punish an errant nation-while keeping the actual technique an Anglo-U.S. secret as long as possible...