Word: threatenings
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...idea what they were trying to ban. Mavor Alfred E. Vellucci (who was actually in favor of granting the theater a license to show "Calcutta") kept referring to the mystery show as a movie. Councilor Leonard Russell kept denouncing the "Combat Zone type of show" as one that would "threaten the lives of hundreds of children...
...personal wealth by saying that Jesus only appealed to the poor, so Moon was trying to appeal to the rich to make up for this. They also rationalized 'divine deceit,' a practice of saying anything to potential converts in order to get them to join--lie to them, threaten them, do anything, since Moon's way is the right way and the only way to salvation...
...Hans-Joachim Klein, another young radical who four months later took part in the kidnaping raid on OPEC ministers in Vienna (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). Verfassungsschutz advised Interatom of Traube's dubious friendships; they decided against dismissing him immediately on the theory that he might go underground and threaten nuclear revenge. Nine days after the OPEC raid, an agent interrupted Traube on a skiing holiday at St. Moritz to ask him about Klein; meanwhile, others broke into his home and planted...
...skate went in reverse, allowing the little black monster entrance to the Crimson goal, Dartmouth suddenly had a 3-2 triumph, and Harvard faced the possibility of missing the playoffs for the first time in 11 years, or not since you were in the fifth grade and used to threaten the kid across the street with statements like "Give me some of that candy or I'll beat your head in." You just don't mix milk with meat...
...anxieties of yesteryear-that is, the late '50s and early '60s-is simply uncontrollable, you could do worse than spend a couple of hours with Twilight's Last Gleaming. In it, a gang of desperate men seize a SAC missile silo in the Far West and threaten to unleash its contents on Russian targets, thus precipitating World War III, unless the President of the U.S. accedes to their demands...