Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S.R. We threaten no nation. America's troops are not massed on China's borders, and we occupy no lands. Nor do we commit wanton acts, such as shooting 269 innocent people out of the sky for the so-called cause of sacred airspace. America and China both condemn military expansionism-the brutal occupation of Afghanistan, the crushing of Kampuchea [Cambodia...
There is the Jesse Jackson that many whites distrust and some even fear. He is the former black radical, the civil rights leader who threatened white businessmen with economic boycotts, the presidential candidate who called Jews "Hymie" and New York City " Hymietown." In his shadow, neither embraced nor disavowed, stands Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim sect, who has praised Hitler and seemed to threaten a black reporter with death...
Meanwhile, offensive weapons are proliferating on both sides, and the prospect for limits any time soon, to say nothing of reductions, is bleak. That makes today the worst possible time for the superpowers to carry their competition into space-or even to threaten...
...educated thinkers threaten the government with their novel ideas, the uneducated peasants alarm it with their abiding devotion to superstition. Last spring the official press reported a chilling revival of gruesome rural rituals. Fathers were burning their families to death in the belief that they would thus earn a short cut to heaven; charlatans were posing as "emperors" in order to win sexual favors from credulous country women. An epidemic of public rites of exorcism led to a series of grisly deaths. In one notorious incident, Party Member Liu Wenxue enlisted a self-styled witch to exorcise his wife...
...rationale for spending this enormous amount of money is alluring. If the U.S. could successfully defend itself against nuclear attack the nuclear dilemma would be radically altered. The need to threaten mass destruction to deter attackers would disappear Peace would cease to depend on the sanity and stability of our enemies Americans would no longer have to live with the knowledge that they, their families and their civilization could be blotted out in an instant...