Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slated to begin tonight will have no effect on most of the conflicts that are lumped together as the Middle East problem. Lebanese Christians and Muslims will continue to kill each other. Religious fundamentalism will roll merrily along. Unrest, if not war, will mark the Maghreb. Iraq will still threaten any country within Scud range. Tens of millions of people from Damascus to Cairo to Tunis and beyond will be poor, illiterate and politically suppressed...
...didn't threaten to score in the game," Pinkerton added. "Their closest threat was a scrum 22 meters out from our try-zone...
They were less discrete than Hill alleges Thomas to have been, but they were no less explicit. In study hall, at lunch, and between classes they described how we could have sex. They would come up to me in the locker room after I'd taken a shower and threaten to grab my towel. In class, one of them would always attempt to sit behind me. If successful, he would begin the explicit descriptions in a whisper, and when the teacher had his head turned, begin to rub my back. In the halls they would attempt to pinch me where...
Since terrorists and third-world dictators are now more likely than superpowers to threaten use of nuclear weapons, it makes sense to develop an anti-ballistic missile defense system...
...They gave me two options -- to hand my office over to ((Vice President Gennadi)) Yanayev and give the nod to the state of emergency, or to step down. They even tried to threaten me. I told them, 'You guys must have known I wouldn't agree to either. You're staging a coup d'etat. What you are trying to do with your committee is anticonstitutional and unlawful. This is adventurism that will result in bloodshed and civil war.' The general started trying to prove to me that they would see to it that such a thing wouldn't happen...