Word: threatenings
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...book is full of Freeling's virtues. There are secondary characters so swiftly and seductively sketched that they threaten to run off into novels all their own. Still, most Freeling fans may wonder if much is gained by introducing the new hero. A Dressing of Diamond is likely to send them figuratively off to Strasbourg to stone the author's house and shout, "Bring back Van der Valk!" The judgment may be a scrap premature. Freeling is not quite the chameleon poet of crime he thought he was, but he remains a writer worth waiting...
...language the Albers use, straight lines and geometric figures arranged with such machine-like precision that evidence of the artist's hand is almost totally effaced, would threaten to create a world so cerebral and austere that it would seem to be sterile were it not for the extraordinary sensitivity of each artist to the nuances of color and--particularly in the works of Anni Albers--texture...
Toward the end, Perón sided more and more with the right. In a recent speech, he dismissed the young leftists as "jerks." Inevitably, the feuding factions will threaten Isabella's power...
...live cattle has risen from $37 per 100 lbs. two weeks ago to $44.57 last week, and hogs in the last month have gone from $25 to $38.57 -still below their peaks last August. In response to farm-belt complaints that prices previously had dropped so low as to threaten bankruptcies among some animal raisers and feedlot operators, the Government is buying up $100 million of "excess" beef and pork for use in its school-lunch program, and has asked Australia and New Zealand to "voluntarily" restrain meat exports...
...presenting these comparisons below it seems imperative that they be expressed in the context of the larger society around the university, where increasing street crime, drug use, family dissolution, political corruption, and general anti-intellectualism have so drastically escalated since the 1950's as to threaten the foundations of both the university and the entire society which nourishes it. A Harvard education may be conceded superior over others in the nation, but still may not deserve objectively high marks unless it is facing these social diseases constructively. On this score I find much room for doubt...