Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blocking back to center has bolstered the center position considerably. Lyman and Grover alternated in the scrimmage. Ayres' 60-minute play convinced Harlow that he would need more reserve material to case the burden on his pivotman. It is possible that if Lyman shows substantial improvement, he will seriously threaten Ayres' possession of the center post...
When big-time Swindler Paul Reynard (Basil Rathbone) muffs that million-pound loan in London, his fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul...
Would it not be wiser for the nation's students to announce their sentiment on the embargo question? The League states that "when crises arise that clearly threaten our national independence by forcing us into the European conflict, we want to allow the members of the League to vote on a definite stand." Has not the crisis arisen? Is not the embargo issue proclaimed to be the "guarantee of neutrality," the "opening wedge to war?" Let the committee take a stand on this crisis, on the means of maintaining neutrality. Those who honestly seek neutrality will be more likely...
...only the Cincinnati Reds but also the game of baseball seems to be taking a terrific shellacking at this point. Attendance records have fallen off during the summer and threaten to drop more in 1940. And all because of the Yankees. The Reds lined up against New York with a strong team and a fine manager. it looked like the Yanks were really in trouble. DiMag was wallowing in a huge batting slum; two of the pitches complained of sore arms and a third pulled a muscle in his side. "There is hope," thought the baseball world. But after...
While the battle for Warsaw took form, in the south the German columns smashed on westward toward Lublin and toward Przemysl on the San River, gateway through the hills toward Lwow. Slovakian columns, too, came out of the border mountains to threaten Lwow, for through that city ran Poland's one remaining lifeline; the road and railroad to Rumania...