Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Throw That Man Out!" Trouble started when the Reverend Powell brusquely shooed news photographers away, so that a photographer could shoot some pictures for LIFE first. When one of the newsmen squawked, the bridegroom told a cop: "Throw that man out!" Thereupon news photographers did what they often threaten but rarely do, staged a sitdown strike. Terms: either the Reverend Powell apologized, or they would take no pictures...
Frustrated Petrillo kept squirming until he hit upon an idea: put Interlochen on his "unfair list" and threaten its instructors with union suspension (TIME, Feb. 19). Dr. Maddy countered by employing college teachers and composers who, not dependent upon instrumental jobs, are not alarmed by Petrillo's threat. Last week he opened the camp as usual, said nonchalantly: "Now it's up to Petrillo. Actually [he] doesn't make a bit of difference. We're going on with our work...
...most devastating document! . . . Explosive! . . . Its secrets, when published, threaten to tumble still more famed figures from high places. . . . Secrets! Perfidies! Private Lives...
...finds the Navy pretty rugged. When she quits, or we should say is returned to inactive duty, we're afraid she'll bring along a lot of that naval doubletalk. We really don't want any. An expert in naval jargon advises us that we should threaten, if she does, to take her down to the Potomac and give her the Deep...
...Secretariat, or permanent research and managerial staff, is to be headed by a Secretary-General with the right to "bring to the attention of the Security Council any matters which in his opinion may threaten international peace and security." This provision would give the organization's executive an importance far beyond that of his counterpart in the League...