Word: threatenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forced him to hand over to trustees, Hughes abandoned the suit rather than make a court appearance; he sold the stock for $546.5 million and ended his association with a company that had been among his most cherished assets. The best way to defeat Hughes seems to be to threaten him with the necessity of appearing in public...
Donald Barthelme's game is best described as surrealist anthropology or perhaps social-science fiction. Literature today is overshadowed by audio-visual art forms that threaten to turn into total pinball-machine environments. But Barthelme, 37, continues to demonstrate that language can be a mixed-media production all by itself. He translates the chipped teacups, navel lint, prattle and random static of life into even rows of words that twitter, bong, flash and glow signals of exquisite distress...
Despite his woes, Wilson's grip on the reins of government is not yet weak enough to threaten him with immediate ouster. Though Labor has lost the last seven Parliamentary by-elections in a row, it still holds a 73-vote majority in Commons-down 24 from its 97-seat edge after the March 1966 elections. Parliament's term runs until the spring of 1971. Barring an unlikely uprising inside the Labor Party, Wilson can govern until then, even though the majority of Britain's electorate has swung clearly to the Conservatives...
...that he immediately pledged that his-and his Christian Democratic Party's-No. 1 priority was to crush Von Thadden's party before next year's federal elections. Declared Kiesinger: "If the impression gets around that there is an awakening of Nazism in Germany, it would threaten our entire foreign and domestic policy...
...Moscow, the Communist Party charged that Mao Tse-tung is not a true Communist and that his policies threaten the party with extinction in China. The party ideological journal Kommunist declared that Mao's policies are "not only a matter of purely Chinese concern" and that they are "doing great harm to the cause of socialism and revolution throughout the world." Kommunist accused Mao of demanding "blind obedience and barrack-room discipline, which turns a human being into a small screw in a bureaucratic machine...