Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austria's sly little "Millimetternich" rubbed his hands: ''Don't do anything till they threaten force. Then let them...
What happens thereafter is a gallant defense of all the cinematic wall-mottoes which have grown dusty since the talkies. Jack Daugherty learns to like milking cows. He becomes the idol of the orphans, falls in love with pure, sweet Peggy. When the owners of the farm mortgage threaten to foreclose, he risks his freedom by going to the city to fight a touring heavyweight champion. He loses but earns the necessary funds. The Manhattan detective who recognizes him at the ringside is so touched by Jimmy Dolan's moral rehabilitation that, when the fight is over, he neglects...
Speaking not in his usual vein of pious optimism but as though he fully realized that bitter national rivalries gravely threaten the Conference's chances of success, Scot MacDonald cried: "The world is being driven on a state of things which may well bring it face to face . . . with a time in which life revolts against hardships and the gains of the past are swept away for forces of despair. . . . How dark are the depths of misery and unsettlement which have still to be gone through? No one who has surveyed the facts . . . can doubt for a moment . . . that...
...moment is not far off when we must act not only in the interest of national finances, but also in thai of the Republican regime. . . . Mob movements threaten to violate the domiciles of the people's representatives. ... If the means now at our disposal are insufficient I will ask for others from...
...plebiscite were held now it would show that I have the popular support to hold my position. For me to yield to the first individual who demands mv withdrawal would establish a sad precedent and threaten the sovereignty of Cuba. In spite of opinion to the contrary, I am governing with the laws and the Constitution, and my only lament is that several times the appearance has been that I was governing outside the Constitution...