Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Permitting some local independence will not threaten the ultimate power of the central authorities. By giving low-level cadre and involved peasants a sense of participation, decentralization identifies them more closely with the regime. Among a populace traditionally powerless, a little authority goes a long way in this direction...
...Presbyterians of Iowa City may talk about "peace and unity," but they certainly don't exemptify it [Feb. 9]. How an they talk of faith, love, and Jesus Christ, then turn and threaten excommunication of two members whose opinions differ from their own? Had Christ done the same thing, he would have been his only follower. Are our churches becoming institutionalized nihilities with the power to turn people away from communal contact with God? Are the stables more important than the sheep...
Unlike insecticides, the study finds, the defoliant herbicides do not concentrate in animal tissue. As a result, dangerous effects on animals and humans are "unlikely." But temporary defoliation over widespread areas could threaten the existence of some animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...
...ship is attacked on the high seas and we make no reply other than the inevitable mouthings of "diplomacy"; when we expend lives in an assault on the strategic Hill 881N and then return the prize to the enemy when we have won it, enabling him to continue to threaten our base; when we apologize to "neutral" Cambodia for intruding on its territory while battling an enemy which lives there-when all these idiotic blunders occur in a single week, it becomes quite evident that someone, somewhere, doesn't know what in hell he's doing...
...fact, there was never much reason for hope. All indications were that the submarines sank in mile-deep waters, and neither had a "collapse point" beyond 1,000 ft. The doomed men died in the particularly horrible ways that threaten those who go under the sea in ships. If death came quickly, they either drowned or were crushed when massive undersea pressure wrenched the vessels' steel hulls. If the two submarines somehow remained intact, their trapped crewmen slowly suffocated...