Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia must rely on Germany for virtually all her reconstruction imports, German industries will work full blast for Russian reparations. Whether or not this means prosperity for the German people, it will mean the speedy restoration of Germany's industrial potential, a new opportunity for the Germans to threaten world peace. If, to prevent the Germans from seizing this opportunity, the U.S.S.R. is tempted to take full political control of Germany, then Britain and the U.S. may well be alienated from their ally-another opportunity for the Germans...
With no such political club wherewith to threaten the President, the non-Communist unions declined in prestige and power. The Communist unions expanded until now they control 400,000 tightly organized workers...
...story: a lonely young Londoner (Ray Milland), at an apparently fatuous parish bazaar, by mischance speaks a password which puts him in possession of a cake. When various people threaten his life and risk theirs in their effort to get the cake away from him, he begins to realize that he somehow has the key to an elaborate and very sinister Nazi spy-plot. When the detective he hires to help him is murdered, he is in no position to call the matter to the attention of the police, because he has only recently been acquitted of the mercy-killing...
...Japan. Our secret service should explore every nook and cranny of Germany and Japan so as to make absolutely impossible the building of parts for planes and rockets and other death-dealing machines in small shops all over the nation, to be assembled in a hurry and used to threaten us. This latter point is most important. I can already hear a blabbermouthed German leader of ten or 15 years from now warning the world that unless Germany is given "living room" she will turn loose the two million rockets she has secretly built and with which she could easily...
...Germans had put on a brilliant performance in the battle of supply. They ceased to threaten the port of Antwerp last week (see below), but for two months they had stood off the British and Canadians on its approaches. They had ruined Le Havre, Marseille, Salonika. Hundreds of miles behind the main battle line, they still had no less than 100,000 troops in Dunkirk, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Lorient, the Channel Islands, and Royan (covering Bordeaux). Where German soil was threatened, they fought like wildcats...