Word: threatenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first half of the Quincy-Winthrop game, the Quins' defense fought doggedly to contain Winthrop's well-oiled offense. Both teams managed to threaten several times, but neither could score...
Once again, a fait accompli had put Makarios' men in control of important new strongpoints from which to threaten the Turkish Cypriots. Inside the Famagusta fortress, the Turkish Cypriots were left in a perilous situation. Their food and water could be cut off at any moment; already their telephone line had been disconnected. Said one Turkish Cypriot leader: "The Greeks want to make us surrender. If they go on like this, we must have help from Turkey...
...tried to stress boiling water, and the agent plugged for this too. But his approach is so unenergetic. Their method seems to be to lecture, and to threaten--with fines, hints of hauling people off to Agboville, and flat statements that the "African" won't do anything unless pushed and pulled. All in all not my idea of sanitary education...
...community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...
...will profoundly affect the United States itself. In human costs alone, thousands of American soldiers will be killed. In terms of foreign policy, the chase for "victory" will lend increasingly voice to those who would meet revolution anywhere with military intervention. Domestically, the need for a war consensus could threaten civil liberties, place in doubt the fate of controversial programs for The Great Society, and inflame even further a public opinion which tolerates no concessions to the Communist threat...