Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nerve Test. Strauss & Co.'s most outrageous ploy was to threaten Erhard that Strauss might take his Bavarians out of the C.D.U. altogether, the implication being that he might then form a majority with the opposition Social Democrats. "They have their nerve," growled Erhard to an aide. In fact, he knew, they didn't have that much nerve, and when the time was right, he put them to the test. At a series of caucuses ending last week in the ornate Palais Schaumburg, Erhard's official residence, the Chancellor informed his adversaries that Schröder would...
...indication of Perón's flagging appeal was the attitude of Argentina's anti-Perónmilitary during the episode. "Street demonstrations," said one ranking soldier, "do not in any way threaten the government. The military respects the civil authority's capacity to handle what is essentially a police matter...
...textbook discussion was the only lengthy one of the meeting, attended by 25 Coop members, 13 of whom were officers and directors. A student who asked whether the Coop's expansion would some day threaten his patronage refund was quickly assured that the interests of Coop members would receive full attention...
...with the rest of the economy after four years of wartime wage controls, had crippled such vital U.S. industries as steel, coal and autos. Over President Harry Truman's veto, a Republican Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which not only permits 80-day injunctions against strikes that threaten the national welfare, but expressly declares that states can pass their own laws prohibiting "membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment." Twenty-five states passed right-to-work laws prohibiting union shops; six later repealed the laws. At present, 19 states have such statutes...
...alarm of dedicated aficionados, El Cordobés' success has encouraged a group of imitators who threaten to transform bullfighting from a dramatic and highly emotional art into a crazy circus act. His imitators are even worse than he is. Significantly, one of them calls himself "The Disaster," another "The Assassin," and a third, whose outlandish caricature of the El Cordobés style has brought him warnings by bullfight authorities, fights under the name of "Little Banana." Last month at a town just outside Madrid, one young apprentice tried to introduce a new dimension to bullfighting by parachuting...