Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greene's patented Manichaean depressives, those saintly sinners whose jobs (crime, the priest hood, spying) allow the author to compose variations on his favorite themes: the pervasiveness of evil and the saving graces of kindness, love and even disloyalty. For Greene, disloyalty to institutions that threaten his ideals of individualism and humanism is a privilege, if not a right...
...little more success in the second half, after we switched to a one-on-one defense," first team All-Ivy selection Wendy Carle said. "But we could only cut into their lead, not threaten it," she added...
...father of her unborn child, and the enemy of her father but he was also the lover of her mother and the father of Anthony and all this unbeknownst to the children. No wonder the knowledge of it made Mr. Earnshaw ill." When such awkwardnesses of her own creation threaten to overwhelm the story, L'Estrange keeps things moving by simply brazening through. She produces a page-turner rather than art, but she does not drag Wuthering Heights into blithering depths...
...difficult to prescribe exact behavior for a covert undertaking. Strict rules of conduct could be damaging in certain situations. Suppose terrorists manage to obtain and hide an atomic weapon, then threaten to blow up a city?a not inconceivable happening in the decades ahead...
...emphasis on reduced Government spending, balanced budgets and laissez-faire economics, quite the opposite of the programs sought by black leaders. Urban League Director Vernon Jordan last week blasted Carter's proposed tax cut of $25 billion (popular with Republicans), claiming it was large enough to threaten "vitally needed urban and social welfare programs." Noting an Urban League study that puts black unemployment at 13.2% (v. 6.3% for whites), Jordan called for increases in job-training funds and public service employment, proposals that most Republicans greet with a distinct chill. Before the Republican National Committee, Jesse Jackson called...