Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snorted when I read the two letters you published protesting Peking's program to rid the city of dogs [Jan. 2]. Obviously your correspondents are unknowledgeable about Chinese dogs. Those I remember were ugly, snarling, malnourished, unlovely beasts that would threaten you but then turn tail and run if you stooped as though to pick up a stone...
...even this small band has become the center of controversy. Like similar debates over the handling of the grizzly, coyote and other wild creatures that sometimes threaten humans and their domesticated animals, the argument involves more than the fate of Minnesota's remaining wolves. At issue is a broader question: Should control of wildlife be left to the people immediately affected by predators, or should endangered creatures be considered part of the national heritage, which involves more than local interests...
...would like to convince the Soviets that no one in the world has aggressive intentions toward them. Certainly we don't. And we have proof over 50 years that we don't. Did we do anything when we were the only power with nuclear weapons? Did we threaten the world? Did we say to everyone, "Lay down your arms...
Dean of Students Archie Epps complained bitterly to members and friends of the Spartacus Youth League, that alas, the protest of Weinberger was at a Law School event and therefore beyond his jurisdiction. Epps continued however to threaten us that "measures will be taken" to insure that no similar protest could take place at the college. Perhaps Dean Epps would like to make visiting war criminals feel more at home by stationing death squads equipped with M16s on campus, or arrange reconnaissance flights followed by aerial bombardment of outdoor rallies such as the one which preceded the Weinberger protest. Weinberger...
...Produce Milk. No children. No milk. Nothing connects these items but the newspaper page on which both appear, and the reader's mind, ravenous as Pac-Man, prepared to bite off more than it can chew. In the evening, on television, more stories pile up. Gasoline Leaks Threaten Water Supplies and Sullivan is Electrocuted Despite Pope's Pleas. No water. No Sullivan. No visa: The Reagan Administration Rejects Visa Application from Nicaragua's Interior Minister. So goes the news on an ordinary day, a strange assembly that swoops down on one's life like cousins from...