Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Nantucket taxpayers had to make up about $44,000 of the Authority's operating deficit, and although Mooney said taxes were still "low for Massachusetts," increased costs threaten to raise the rates. The new representative said he will seek state funds on the grounds that the Steamship Line is "Nantucket's road to the mainland," and that the state should help maintain roads...
...Scarcely had Eden finished speaking than he got a phone call from President Eisenhower, who interrupted his Election-Day concerns to express his approval of Eden's decision. Cried Mollet in Paris: "When the Soviet Union thought it saw a crack in the free world and wanted to threaten, we at once found the U.S. at our side...
...dispose of purines without creating an excess of uric acid), and the only one for which diet is important. About 95% of victims are males. The disease smolders indefinitely, but is marked by acute flare-ups with excruciating pain in swollen, inflamed joints. In rare cases, it can threaten life by depositing uric acid crystals in the kidneys or heart. Sufferers must avoid foods rich in purines-yeast, herring roe, sardines, asparagus, and many organ meats such as sweetbreads, liver, heart and kidneys. Other treatment: colchicine (an ancient remedy extracted from the autumn crocus), ACTH, phenylbutazone (a powerful but potentially...
...books on a blacklist, which includes work of such literary mandarins as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Dos Passes, George Orwell, Emile Zola, Arthur Koestler and Joyce Gary. "In some places-notably Detroit, Peoria and the suburbs of Boston," Fischer writes, "the organization has enlisted the local police to threaten booksellers who are slow to 'cooperate...
Columbia Coach Lou Little will send his last Lion team out onto Baker Field today trying to wreck the dreams of Crimson fans. Two men in particular, Claude Benham and Ed Spraker, will threaten the visitors' new-found prosperity, for it is on them that the Light Blue's attack depends...