Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witted young Alabama Negro housemaid who, having been seduced by her employer and sent packing by his wife, finds sanctuary with an enlightened writer. While the writer is playing Professor Higgins to the girl's Liza, the town assumes he is playing Don Juan. Preachers rail, hooded figures threaten, before a ladylike Jolly goes North for further schooling. Beyond some vivid touches by Eartha Kitt, the play has small merit. It is so gagged up with breezy situations, crude stereotypes and comic characters that the racial angle, which might have breathed chill realism upon Shavian comedy, seems merely employed...
Another warning came from Professor W. W. Rostow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, who advocated "sharply increased public expenditures" for both defense and foreign aid. Russia's superior growth rate and her power-bent use of it, Rostow said, threaten the U.S. on half a dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down...
...competence to take actions "with the consent or at the invitation of governments concerned, but without formal decisions of other organs of the U.N." His authority he finds in Article 99 of the Charter, which empowers the Secretary-General to act in any situation that "may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security." But his real authority consists in having established a reputation for scrupulous moderation and impartiality in enlarging the role of his office...
With a 2-2 record in the league, the Crimson must win all its remaining games (Princeton, Brown, Yale), to threaten, and of these, today's contest with Princeton will unquestionably be the toughest. Brown has Choquette but little else; Yale racked up an impressive unbeaten, untied, and unscored on record, but lost it against relatively soft opposition. There is nothing weak, however, about the Tigers...
...Engineers have tied Army, the only squad to give Yale's high-rated Bulldogs any difficulty all season. They definitely will threaten the Crimson's undefeated record, which now stands...