Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Caught between pre-Vatican II conservatives who threaten to leave the church if the Mass is further altered and liberals who find the current liturgy too limiting, Kenneally, 59, must regularly supplement prayers with politicking. "The challenge for me is not in being between the church hierarchy and the ordinary people but in being between the flanks of the ordinary people," he says. Especially when the ordinary people have such deep and conflicting feelings about the church hierarchy...
...missing ballots threaten to start a new controversy over proportional representation, the complicated voting system that Cambridge has used since 1941 to elect the nine city council and six school committee positions...
...called to see Lavin in his office each night, the boys give each other knowing glances. Yet their inability to do anything in the face of this authority is overwhelming. Silence translates into an uneasy acceptance of these secret sadistic practices. Invoking the words of God, the priests regularly threaten the young men with tales of hell and torture. They force the boys to believe that the orphanage is their last refuge in a society that has rejected them. Daily religious instruction inculcates the boys to accept their lot and pray for a heaven--a better life--in the next...
...Ruckelshaus said that the new Congress does not threaten the purpose...
...probably a major reason why Serb commanders undertook to invade Bihac. At the practical level, the strategy was to take land needed to open a rail link between their forces and kindred units holding territory across the border in Croatia -- a prospect that prompted the Croatian government to threaten intervention. Beyond that, the unpunished siege of Bihac could and did shatter Western resolve...