Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week indicated that suicidal tendencies on U.S. campuses are greater than almost anyone had imagined. In the first authoritative estimate of its kind, the magazine claimed that 1,000 U.S. collegians will kill themselves this year, that another 9,000 will try and fail, and that 90,000 will threaten to do so. Though the figures may seem too tidy, many college counselors consider them conservative...
...knows what response he can expect from the whites should any violence threaten. Shortly after midnight on August 13, twenty Philadelphia policemen raided the Freedom Library, looking for dynamite. Some 200 policemen were stationed nearby as riot deterrent. All that was found, however, was literature and posters, some of which the police took with them...
...world. The three counties grouped around the city grow 90% of America's table grapes and a fair percentage of the wine grapes as well, With a steady stream of migrant harvesters and a reliable supply of Mexican and Filipino resident labor, there was nothing in Delano to threaten good harvests and good profits but the occasional summer rains...
...hotels were less under siege. In New York City last week, cops counted only about 500 kids gathered around the hotel v. 10,000 the year before, and the Beatles' trip to Shea Stadium by armored truck seemed dictated more by showmanship than necessity. True, two girls did threaten to jump off a Manhattan hotel roof in the Beatles' honor. But the girls were combing their hair while the crowds gathered, and it was taken as a sign of the times that they chose a 22nd-floor setback of the building and not the 50th floor. Clearly, Beatlemania...
...began, the biggest and costliest strike in U.S. airline history ended last week with a labor triumph. The 35,400 striking members of the International Association of Machinists not only slapped down Lyndon Johnson's personal efforts at peacemaking, but won a settlement so lavish as to threaten the whole economy with a major round of wage-price inflation...