Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russell's great individual effort won 30 Straus points for Leverett, which continues to threaten Eliot for house supremacy...
...Cecil Price, with conspiring to violate the civil rights of the three young civil rights workers-Andrew Goodman, 20, Michael Schwerner, 24, and James Chancy, 21, who were shot dead near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964. In a separate indictment, the grand jury charged twelve men with conspiring to "intimidate, threaten, and coerce" Hattiesburg Farmer Vernon Dahmer, who died when his home was fire-bombed last year. One man, Sam H. Bowers Jr., 42, Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was named in both indictments. With the exception of Bowers, none of the men could...
Left unresolved was the staggering $110 million that the Syrians say is owed them because of ten years of "faulty bookkeeping" by the company. l.P.C. wants the issue settled by compulsory arbitration, but Syria does not want to lose this ace, preferring to threaten future closing of the pipeline should the company become difficult and refuse further demands...
...defensive military posture. Clearly the requirements of military training will still have to be met, and the military system may adjust to this with difficulty. But let the seed be sown as soon as the present war is over. There is no threat that such a philosophy will threaten the strength of our defense; on the contrary, as the level of education in this country rises and the temperament of youth changes, our soldiers may demand that they be asked to die in a uniform that represents more than strict military efficiency. Frederic R. Kellogg...
Cult of Goodness. A more subtle threat than exile and expropriation is the black-African demand that the churches adapt their teaching and worship to indigenous culture in ways that threaten authentic Christian doctrine. In Kenya, there have been suggestions that the Bible be rewritten so that the first man and woman are not Adam and Eve but Gikuyu and Moombi, the primordial spirit-beings of Kikuyu legend. Zambia's Kaunda, the son of an ordained Presbyterian minister, believes that Christianity has wrongly stressed the "sinfulness and depravity" of man, and that Africa needs a more positive faith emphasizing...