Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbolic effect by Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy are less and less serviceable for the globe's trouble spots. Nuclear weapons can no longer intimidate the Soviets, who have as many of them as we do; in the masses now assembled by both superpowers, those weapons threaten, if unleashed, a hideous end to civilization...
Graham explained his position at the Mem Church service simply by saying that nuclear weapons are something which threaten human existence, thereby contradicting Christian principles...
...there are not enough concentrators, the BSA organizers said they fear a "domino theory" could threaten the whole department. The administration may reason, "if there aren't many student concentrators in Afro-Am, they don't need many professors, and therefore there isn't much need for Afro-Am," Williams said...
...time touches the present. Quantum physics and relativity have spawned the laser and computers that improve our lives and the bombs that menace them. And perhaps no aspect of nuclear weapons is as terrifying as their arbitrariness, their capacity to obliterate the hopes, plans, and dreams of mankind. They threaten to make the past irrelevant and the future impossible. They wobble like crockery in the clumsy hands of blind and drunken children, the bureaucracies and coteries that have so far maintained the balance of terror...
Working behind the scenes to settle the crisis, the United States should put extra pressure on Argentina to withdraw and should not hesitate to threaten that nation with economic sanctions and bans on imports. As long as the United States has chosen to establish cordial ties with Argentina, it must use that economic lever age as a bargaining chip...