Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rabbit had suddenly run across the Senate floor, Vice President Garner, whose white eyebrows make him look perpetually astonished anyway, could not have looked more surprised. Senator Schwellenbach is one of the New Deal's stanchest upholders. For him to threaten a filibuster against an Administration bill was almost beyond understanding. A stickler for the rules, the Vice President let the bill go over till the next...
...create an organization for study, whose economic value would be marked by its triple characteristics-universality; permanence; independence. . . . It would have to be as independent as possible of nationalistic influence. . . . Neither lowering of customs barriers, nor any other partial measure would put an end to the disorders which threaten peace. If we are really to avoid war and bring back humanity to more peaceful sentiments, we must have the courage to face economic questions in their broadest aspect and find a solution for such great problems threatening peace as these...
Harvard 0, Yale 0--Both teams threaten to score in first half...
...Leave no brief cases around, no matter how innocent their contents. Villainous spies frequently slip incriminating documents into them, then threaten to peach unless the luckless Russian joins the organization...
...actually happen in the story but the fact that at its end the Hiltons are exactly where they were at its beginning constitutes its denouement. This is because, in the interim, each has been touched, lightly as by the warm March wind, by currents in life that invite or threaten change. Seventeen-year-old Catherine (Olivia de Havilland) has fallen in first love with the artist who is painting her portrait. Her brother Martin (Peter Willes) is interrupted in planning to run away from home by an invitation to dinner from the girl next door (Anita Louise). Roger Hilton...