Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prevent this upset, the United States must regain the confidence of the Icelandic people. Despite this country's concern, the Government must not wave its finger at Iceland, nor can it afford to threaten the nation with any "agonizing reappraisal." A State Department mission should be sent to Iceland to talk to political leaders and attempt to pacify their grievances. Troops and workers for the base could be taught to get along better with the people. NATO economists should be sent to Iceland to attempt to alleviate inflation and employment difficulties there. In addition, the United States should increase...
...Nagas have never swerved from their desire to be King of the Mountains. After the British pulled out of India, the Indian government offered the Nagas tribal autonomy under New Delhi. Replied a Naga spokesman: "White man was never king over us. Now black men come with guns and threaten they going to king over us. But nobody on this big earth will ever king over Nagas...
...make it unduly difficult to organize unions, particularly in parts of the South; that some of the "rights" conferred on management do more harm than good if our objective is a healthy, peaceful relationship between these two great participants in our productive process; and that these weaknesses would seriously threaten our economic welfare in a period of depression...
There is an enormous difference between the arrogant doctrinaire (who undoubtedly exists in many academic quarters) who feels he has nothing to learn from men of other views and who will refuse to consider facts that may threaten his doctrinal security, and the scholar who commits himself to views he considers correct at the time when they are under his scrutiny. To accept certain theological conclusions no more disqualifies a person from competent scholarship in this field than belief in democracy and voting in election time disqualifies a man from competent research in the field of Government...
...between those who actually attempt suicide and those who only threaten it, the latter are actually the more "disturbed," in the psychiatric sense, by guilt, aggression, irritability and agitation. Those who try it may be more withdrawn, but it often seems that the mere attempt has helped to get them temporarily back on an even emotional keel...