Word: threatenings
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Then, in the last decades of the 19th Century, a mighty competitor arose to threaten British trade. U.S. productivity caught and then far surpassed Britain's. The leadership in world finance and trade passed into American hands. Declining Britain could no longer earn enough abroad to pay for what she needed to buy abroad to maintain her living standard...
...first round had gone to Lilienthal. From the White House he got a reassuring pat. Said Harry Truman: "I deplore the fact that relatively trivial items have been blown up to proportions that threaten the integrity of the program. It is time people stopped getting hysterical when the word atom is mentioned . . . I have entire confidence in Mr. Lilienthal...
Gratitude. Franklin Roosevelt, assuming office as the economy President (a phase that did not last long), ordered a 25% cut in pensions for disabled veterans. When a big Legion rally in Long Beach, Calif, started to threaten a second march on Washington, National Commander Johnson hustled to the scene, talked down the first angry boos which greeted him, and persuaded the Legionnaires...
Third, the Teachers' Union resolved that "in time when widespread suspicion and organized pressure threaten the independence of university scholars, every effort must be made to preserve the principles of academic freedom, and special effort should be made to avoid stigmatizing or punishing members of the faculty who profess independent or unpopular views...
...same bitter circumstances that threaten to transform decent patriotism into indecent nationalism are conspiring also to choke democracy's growth. The saddest and plainest diagnosis I have heard came from a brainy, sober man of 42 who has fought Fascism all his life-Waldemar von Knoeringen, head of Bavaria's Socialist Party...