Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disputes continue, Congress is likely to hear many more demands for tightened federal control over strikes that threaten the nation's economy and war effort...
...many South Texas cities, by a coalition of Anglos and Latinos; the latter are often regarded as Tios Tomases (Uncle Toms) by the more dissatisfied Latins. Those who rule Laredo have watched the poverty fight here closely and with some misgivings, fearing political and economic change that could threaten their power...
Police Power. Only in Alabama did the state government seriously threaten to defy the courts. Under George Wallace and his wife the Governor, Alabama has the lowest degree of integration of any state (2.4%) and was already under injunction to comply with the law by another three-judge federal panel (TIME, March 31), which held that its state education officials are responsible for desegregating the schools...
...great and tremendous silence of fear and the most bitter and resigned conformism threaten to spread through all our organs of opinion which will now have to busy themselves with innocuous affairs or fall back on systematic hypocrisy." The editorial in the Spanish daily El Norte de Castilla had two meanings...
Cities and their suburbs are both ideals and horrors at the same time. ideals and overcrowding threaten, but somehow the city manages to retain its image as the potentially perfect environment. Suburbs, constantly under attack as unfit for family life, are still sought by most home-buyers as the best place to live. And amid public and private disillusionment, the redevelopers in the city and the developers in the suburbs consume land at the rate of a million acres...