Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, I suggest, we are in an economy today which is experiencing rapid and sound growth under an Administration which is effectively curbing excesses in credit as they threaten to develop.... Charles T. Wood...
Lawson counted for a few 15-yard gains on these line plays and was backed by some hard plunges from fullback Micky Maguire. But never could the Crimson put together enough offense to threaten the Tufts lead seriously...
Cornell, the Crimson's football opponent this coming Saturday, failed to stop Navy in their 14-0 defeat, in the only non-Ivy League encounter over the weekend among the Crimson's 1956 opposition. The strong Navy squad started its second string, yet Cornell failed to threaten once during the contest. Its defense, however, was excellent in spots, and once stopped a 74-yard Middie scoring march on the one yard line...
...real point was a point of law and order: it must be shown that other nations cannot deprive the Western powers of their right or threaten their vital interests with reckless impunity. If Nasser got away with his grab unpenalized, other Arabs in other lands might take it as a precedent for grabs of their own-at British and U.S. oil and pipelines. And if Nasser's truculence became a pattern elsewhere, it could destroy all hopes of fruitful cooperation between the world's free industrial nations and the underdeveloped countries...
...have sounded strange to propaganda-conditioned Russian ears. "Part of mankind doesn't know what the Soviet Union is," said Sukarno. "There are even some who say that the Soviet Union likes war, that the people of the Soviet Union are bent on aggression, that they want to threaten someone . . . I have been to other countries [e.g., the U.S. last May], and I can say that they love peace...