Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People cherish legends of radio operators who stick to their keys as their ships go down, of actors who carry on the show as fire and panic threaten, of reporters whose dying gasps are in the service of their newspapers. Last week a new and complicated episode of newspaper dramatics was enacted in the little town of Alturas (pop. 2,338), up in the northeast corner county of California...
...driven out. When watching sympathizers began to pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back to the strikers, and United Automobile Workers' young President Homer Martin seized the occasion to threaten a city-wide general automobile strike unless the police raids stopped. After a weekend lull, police evicted sit-downers in a printing plant, a W. P. A. station. Labor and the Law moved toward a showdown as Detroit's City Council unanimously refused the automobile union's request...
...Event of the week in every part of the Soviet Union was a local speech, duplicated by thousands of orators, echoing the keynote sounded at Moscow on the 19th Anniversary of the Red Army by Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. The official keynote: "The two countries which most threaten peace-Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan-have made no secret of their plans to attack the Soviet Union. . . . They are viciously sharpening their swords!" This was followed by what was said to be historically the first intimation that the Red Army, always described by Communist orators as "purely defensive," now seems...
...speak to the sons of professors differently from the way you'd talk to some of the tough Cambridge kids. In general you can quiet most restless children with a smile, but if you threaten them they'll take your dare. If you're reasonably decent to them, they'll behave and you won't have to kick them...
...Dictator who had been risking his life by his refusal to speak with desperate men, spoke-nay, he conversed. This conversation, like that of Mr. Baldwin and King Edward, was not so much about the tremendous issues at stake as about money. Of course Young Chang did not threaten to kill Dictator Chiang unless he was paid a given sum. That would have been nonsense. The position of each of these two Chinese was of such eminence and power that a few million dollars more or less was not to them what it is to the Duke of Windsor...