Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first round had gone to Lilienthal. From the White House he got a reassuring pat. Said Harry Truman: "I deplore the fact that relatively trivial items have been blown up to proportions that threaten the integrity of the program. It is time people stopped getting hysterical when the word atom is mentioned . . . I have entire confidence in Mr. Lilienthal...
Third, the Teachers' Union resolved that "in time when widespread suspicion and organized pressure threaten the independence of university scholars, every effort must be made to preserve the principles of academic freedom, and special effort should be made to avoid stigmatizing or punishing members of the faculty who profess independent or unpopular views...
...same bitter circumstances that threaten to transform decent patriotism into indecent nationalism are conspiring also to choke democracy's growth. The saddest and plainest diagnosis I have heard came from a brainy, sober man of 42 who has fought Fascism all his life-Waldemar von Knoeringen, head of Bavaria's Socialist Party...
...business flying reconnaissance over someone else's war. Furthermore, three of the British planes had been shot down over Palestine, and they had the charred wreckage of one to prove it. The British troop landings at Aquaba, cried an official spokesman, "can have no purpose but to threaten Israel's territory in the southern part of the Negeb...
...necessarily on the way out, but the homeopaths' prestige in Britain is. Except for the foothold at the palace, homeopathy is pretty much out of fashion. Other doctors no longer bother to keep up the tradition against fraternizing -chiefly because they feel that homeopaths no longer threaten their medical power...